Sony Music and Warner Chappell Sue Anthropic Over Copyrighted Song Lyrics
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Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell filed a lawsuit against Anthropic and co-founders Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann, alleging tens of thousands of copyrighted songs were used to train Claude without permission.
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Timeline · 8 reports
- 2026-08-30 13:44 · South China Morning Post Tech
Sony Music, Warner accuse Anthropic of ‘blatant theft’ in major new lawsuit - 2026-08-30 09:33 · The Next Web
Sony Music and Warner Chappell sue Anthropic over song lyrics in Claude’s training data - 2026-08-30 08:50 · The Decoder
Sony and Warner sue Anthropic over "one of the largest and most blatant ongoing thefts of intellectual property in history" - 2026-08-29 18:52 · Engadget
Sony and Warner sue Anthropic for 'blatant violation' of copyright law - 2026-08-29 18:41 · TechCrunch AI
Sony Music, Warner sue Anthropic, alleging a brazen campaign of intellectual property theft - 2026-08-29 18:19 · The Verge AI
Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell are suing Anthropic - 2026-08-29 16:26 · Unite.AI
Sony and Warner Chappell Sue Anthropic Over Claude Lyric Training - 2026-08-29 15:30 · Techmeme
Sony Music and Warner Chappell sue Anthropic, Dario Amodei, and Benjamin Mann, alleging tens of thousands of copyrighted songs were used to train Claude's LLMs (Tim Ingham/Music Business Worldwide)