Sony and Warner Music sue Anthropic over alleged piracy of copyrighted compositions
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Units of Sony Music and Warner Music sued Anthropic in federal court in northern California, alleging the company trained Claude on tens of thousands of copyrighted compositions through illegal torrenting, scraping, and downloading. The 48-page complaint names CEO Dario Amodei and co-founder Benjamin Mann and seeks hundreds of thousands of dollars per infringed work.\n\nAnthropic, which agreed to the largest copyright settlement in U.S. history, a $1.5 billion deal with authors and publishers in September 2025, said it disagrees with the publishers' claims and will defend itself in court.