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Sony & Warner Sue Anthropic Over AI Lyric Training

  • On Friday, Sony and Warner Music sued Anthropic, alleging the company engaged in "one of the largest and most blatant ongoing thefts of intellectual property in history" to train its Claude AI models.
  • This suit follows a settlement last month where Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5 billion to authors Charles Graeber, Kirk Wallace Johnson, and Andrea Bartz, compensating $3,000 per material used without permission.
  • Defendants Anthropic, led by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann, allegedly conducted a "brazen campaign" of illegally torrenting, scraping, and downloading copyrighted music to profit from Claude.
  • While not the first legal challenge against AI companies, the broad scope of this lawsuit suggests a potential years-long legal battle over intellectual property rights in the rapidly growing technology sector.
  • Separately, Anthropic recently challenged the Pentagon in court; a federal judge ruled this week that the government acted illegally when punishing the company, despite President Donald Trump's March rage over supply chain risks.
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Anthropic has committed one of the biggest and most blatant intellectual property thefts in history. It is this, according to the American journalistic newspaper Axios, the accusation that some of the largest music publishers in the world have filed against the artificial intelligence company. Among these there are also some divisions of Sony Music and Warner Music: [...] The article Sony and Warner sue Anthropic: "He has committed one of the gr…

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mediagazer.com broke the news on Saturday, August 29, 2026.
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