September 30, 2026 5:31 pm EDT
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Sony Music and Warner Chappell want Anthropic to pay up.

The publishing companies filed a lawsuit against Anthropic in a Northern California district court on Friday. Anthropic cofounders Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann were also named in the filing.

“Defendants Anthropic and its founders Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann have conducted a brazen campaign of illegally torrenting, scraping, and downloading copyrighted works on a massive scale in order to develop, operate, and reap enormous profits from Anthropic’s ‘Claude’ series of artificial intelligence (‘AI’) models,” the companies said in the complaint.

Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music said Anthropic collected “thousands upon thousands” of copyrighted songs, including 80s anthem “Eye...

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