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Sony Music and Warner Chappell are suing Anthropic
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TL;DR
- Sony Music and Warner Chappell are suing Anthropic for copyright infringement in the US District Court for the Northern District of California.
- The lawsuit alleges that Anthropic used "tens of thousands" of copyrighted works to train its AI models, seeking up to $150,000 per work and $25,000 for each instance of stripped copyright data.
- Potential damages could reach several billion dollars if the court rules in favor of the plaintiffs.
- Anthropic has faced previous lawsuits from other music companies and the publishing industry, including a $1.5 billion settlement.
- The complaint names co-founders Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann as individual defendants, alleging they used BitTorrent and other methods to download millions of pirated books and scraped lyrics.
- Specific songs cited as examples found in Anthropic's training data include "Ain't No Mountain High Enough," "Livin' On a Prayer," and "September."