Anthropic sued over alleged theft of ‘tens of thousands’ of songs
AI company faces multibillion dollar lawsuit over misuse of copyrighted songs to train Claude models
TL;DR
- Music publishers Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell are suing Anthropic, the AI company behind the Claude chatbot.
- The lawsuit alleges Anthropic "torrented, scraped and downloaded" tens of thousands of copyrighted songs to train its AI models.
- Plaintiffs claim this constitutes "one of the largest and most blatant ongoing thefts of intellectual property in history".
- Songs allegedly used include Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas is You" and Marvin Gaye's "Ain't No Mountain High Enough".
- The publishers are seeking damages potentially running into billions of dollars.
- Anthropic has denied the allegations and intends to defend itself vigorously.
- This lawsuit follows previous legal actions against Anthropic by authors and other music groups over similar copyright concerns.