Sony Music and Warner Chappell sue Anthropic over AI training – Northeast Times
Sony Music and Warner Chappell have filed suit against Anthropic, the company behind the Claude AI chatbot, accusing it of a “brazen campaign of illegally torrenting, scraping, and downloading copyrighted works” to train its technology.
The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, also names Anthropic co-founders Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann as individual defendants. The publishers are calling it “one of the largest and most blatant ongoing thefts of intellectual property in history.”
The Verge reported that the companies are seeking up to $150,000 per work, plus up to $25,000 for each instance when identifiable copyright data was stripped. Total damages could reach several billion dollars if a court awards the maximum. The suit alleges Mann used BitTorrent to download over five million pirated books and that employees downloaded at least two million more from Pirate Library Mirror. It also claims Anthropic scraped lyrics from sites like MusixMatch and LyricFind, which had paid to license that content.
Songs named in the complaint include Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell’s “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough,” Bon Jovi’s “Livin’ On a Prayer,” Earth, Wind & Fire’s “September,” Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” and Taylor Swift’s “Paper Rings.”
Anthropic has faced a string of similar cases. It recently settled the Bartz v. Anthropic suit brought by the publishing industry for $1.5 billion and has been sued by Universal Music Group, Concord, ABKCO, BMG and Round Hill Music. An Anthropic spokesperson told TechCrunch, “We disagree with the publishers’ claims and we intend to defend ourselves robustly in court.”
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The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, also names Anthropic co-founders Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann as individual defendants. The publishers are calling it “one of the largest and most blatant ongoing thefts of intellectual property in history.”
The Verge reported that the companies are seeking up to $150,000 per work, plus up to $25,000 for each instance when identifiable copyright data was stripped. Total damages could reach several billion dollars if a court awards the maximum. The suit alleges Mann used BitTorrent to download over five million pirated books and that employees downloaded at least two million more from Pirate Library Mirror. It also claims Anthropic scraped lyrics from sites like MusixMatch and LyricFind, which had paid to license that content.
Songs named in the complaint include Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell’s “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough,” Bon Jovi’s “Livin’ On a Prayer,” Earth, Wind & Fire’s “September,” Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” and Taylor Swift’s “Paper Rings.”
Anthropic has faced a string of similar cases. It recently settled the Bartz v. Anthropic suit brought by the publishing industry for $1.5 billion and has been sued by Universal Music Group, Concord, ABKCO, BMG and Round Hill Music. An Anthropic spokesperson told TechCrunch, “We disagree with the publishers’ claims and we intend to defend ourselves robustly in court.”
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