Sony and Warner Music Sue Anthropic Over Copyright Infringement in Claude Training

Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music have filed a lawsuit against Anthropic in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, alleging the unauthorized use of tens of thousands of copyrighted works to train its Claude AI models. The plaintiffs claim Anthropic engaged in large-scale illegal downloading and scraping of protected content, including lyrics from sites like MusixMatch and LyricFind. The lawsuit names co-founders Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann as individual defendants, citing allegations that employees utilized BitTorr