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Sony and Warner Music File Copyright Lawsuit Against Anthropic
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THE BRIEF
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Music publishers including Sony and Warner Music filed a lawsuit in Northern California federal court alleging Anthropic committed massive intellectual property theft.
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The plaintiffs are seeking $150,000 in damages per alleged infringement, a figure that could total billions if the court finds the company liable for scraping song lyrics.
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The suit claims Anthropic violated copyrights by scraping authorized repositories like MusixMatch and LyricFind to train its Claude AI model to reproduce lyrics verbatim.