Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell have filed a lawsuit against Anthropic, alleging the AI company conducted a "brazen campaign" of illegally torrenting, scraping, and downloading copyrighted music works to train Claude. The case follows similar litigation including the Bartz v. Anthropic case, where Anthropic was ordered to pay $1.5 billion after a judge ruled that while using copyrighted works for training may be legal, obtaining them through piracy was not.
Background
This follows a growing wave of copyright lawsuits against AI companies training on copyrighted material, including the landmark Bartz case and ongoing litigation from authors and music publishers. The legal question centers on whether AI companies can use copyrighted works for training purposes and what methods of acquisition are permissible.
- Source
- TechCrunch
- Published
- Aug 30, 2026 at 02:41 AM
- Score
- 7.0 / 10