Sony Music and Warner Chappell Sue Anthropic Over AI Copyright Infringement

Music publishing giants file suit against Anthropic alleging unauthorized ingestion of copyrighted lyrics and musical compositions for LLM training.

Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music have filed a major copyright infringement lawsuit against Anthropic in federal court.

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The publishers claim Anthropic ingested tens of thousands of copyrighted song lyrics without licensing agreements to train Claude models.

The lawsuit seeks substantial statutory damages and injunctions against unauthorized dataset ingestion.