Sony/Warner sues Anthropic for piracy

Some of the largest music publishers in the world filed a lawsuit against Anthropic late Friday night, calling it "one of the largest and most egregious ongoing intellectual property thefts in history."

The lawsuit will be the start of a potentially multi-year battle over music, AI and how to protect intellectual property in a new era of technology… The Sony/Warner lawsuit is notable because it alleges that Anthropic illegally trained its models on “tens of thousands” of copyrighted compositions from music publishers, while other lawsuits focus on a more limited set of works. BMG’s lawsuit against Anthropic, for example, alleges infringement of 493 compositions.

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“Defendants Anthropic and its founders, Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann, conducted a brazen campaign of illegal torrenting, bundling and downloading of copyrighted works on a massive scale in order to develop, operate and profit enormously from Anthropic’s “Claude” series of artificial intelligence (“AI”) models,” the plaintiffs write in the 48-page lawsuit. They also allege that Anthropic illegally downloaded thousands of copyrighted musical works…

The companies are seeking up to $150.000 per project, plus up to $25.000 for each instance where identifiable copyright data was removed. In total, the damages could run into several billion dollars if a court rules in favor of Sony and Warner and awards the maximum amount…

The lawsuit alleges that Mann used BitTorrent to download more than five million pirated books and that Anthropic employees downloaded at least two million tracks from the Pirate Library Mirror. It also alleges that Anthropic copied lyrics from sites like MusixMatch and LyricFind, which pay to license content from record labels.

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