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Sony and Warner Sue Anthropic, Charging 'Blatant' Music Theft
Newser • • business
Key Points:
- Sony and Warner have jointly filed a federal lawsuit against AI company Anthropic, accusing it of training its Claude models on tens of thousands of their copyrighted songs without permission.
- The lawsuit describes the alleged infringement as one of the largest and most blatant intellectual property thefts in history, seeking hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages per infringed song.
- The complaint claims Claude reproduces stolen lyrics verbatim and that existing protections can be bypassed by altering prompts given to the AI model.
- Anthropic, whose CEO and co-founder are named in the suit, has denied the allegations and stated it will contest the claims in court, despite previously settling a $1.5 billion copyright case with authors and publishers.
