Sony and Warner sue Anthropic's founders over alleged training-data piracy
Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell accuse Anthropic and its founders of copying tens of thousands of compositions for Claude and seek up to $150,000 per infringed work.
By RuntimeWire Staff · Published
Primary source: Axios
Why it matters
The complaint names two Anthropic founders in direct and contributory infringement claims, raising the prospect of personal liability and discovery into executive decisions about how an AI lab acquired training data.
Axios reported that Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music sued Anthropic and co-founders Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann on August 28th, alleging that Anthropic used torrenting, scraping, and downloaded copyrighted works to develop and operate Claude. The allegations have not been adjudicated.…