Sep. 1 at 12:27 AM
Sony Music and Warner Music sued Anthropic in a California federal court, accusing the AI company of illegally using hundreds of copyrighted songs, lyrics and musical compositions to train its Claude models. The labels allege that Claude was trained on works from artists including The Beatles, Taylor Swift and Michael Jackson, enabling the chatbot to reproduce protected material in response to user prompts.
The case is part of a growing wave of copyright litigation against AI companies, with authors, publishers, record labels and media organizations challenging the use of protected content for model training. Universal Music Group has also sued Anthropic since 2023 over the alleged use of copyrighted song lyrics.
Anthropic previously agreed to pay
$1.5 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by authors, becoming the first major AI company to reach such a settlement.
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