Sony and Warner sue Anthropic over copyrighted song theft used for AI training
Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music have sued Anthropic, accusing the $2 trillion AI company of pirating copyrighted songs at massive scale to train Claude, its family of AI models. The lawsuit, filed Friday in California federal court, alleges Anthropic obtained lyrics and sheet music through torrent downloads and other pirate sources rather than
Anthropic allegedly pirated copyrighted songs at massive scale to train its Claude models, obtaining lyrics and sheet music through torrent downloads and other pirate sources.
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Truvace Impact Record TRV-2026-0943, v1: “Sony and Warner sue Anthropic over copyrighted song theft used for AI training.” Truvace, 2026-09-01. /record/TRV-2026-0943 (accessed at citation time). sha256 8226a6f8703f95cb…
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