Sony Music, Warner sue Anthropic, alleging a “brazen campaign” of intellectual property theft
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Sony Music Publishing, Warner Chappell and other music publishers sued Anthropic and co-founders Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann for alleged intellectual property theft via downloading and scraping copyrighted works. The lawsuit was filed late Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, and it follows Anthropic being ordered to pay $1.5 billion in the earlier Bartz case. The complaint expands on prior litigation by arguing Anthropic used thousands of copyrighted works to train Claude and by alleging illegal torrenting to obtain millions of books, including ones with lyrics and sheet music.