Sony Music Publishing, Warner Chappell and other music publishers have sued Anthropic and its co-founders, Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann. The publishers accused the company of obtaining thousands of copyrighted works through illegal torrenting, scraping and downloading methods to train Claude.
Anthropic, meanwhile, said it disagreed with the allegations and would mount a strong defense in the case. In the earlier Bartz case, the company had been ordered to pay $1.5 billion for acquiring copyrighted works through pirated means. The new lawsuit alleges that millions of copies of books, as well as works containing song lyrics and sheet music, were also obtained illegally.
Background
Warner is not a new name in the FikirPilot archive: we have published 2 reports mentioning the name in the last 90 days; the latest is dated 29 August 2026.