{"id":3491733,"date":"2026-08-29T18:41:59","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T18:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/29\/sony-music-and-warner-have-filed-a-lawsuit-against-anthropic-claiming-a-bold-initiative-of-theft-regarding-intellectual-property\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T18:41:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T18:41:59","slug":"sony-music-and-warner-have-filed-a-lawsuit-against-anthropic-claiming-a-bold-initiative-of-theft-regarding-intellectual-property","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/29\/sony-music-and-warner-have-filed-a-lawsuit-against-anthropic-claiming-a-bold-initiative-of-theft-regarding-intellectual-property\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony Music and Warner have filed a lawsuit against Anthropic, claiming a \u201cbold initiative\u201d of theft regarding intellectual property."},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/sony-music-and-warner-have-filed-a-lawsuit-against-anthropic-claiming-a-bold-initiative-of-theft-regarding-intellectual-property.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sony Music Publishing, Warner Chappell, and various other music publishers have filed a lawsuit against Anthropic and co-founders Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann, claiming the AI lab initiated a \u201cbrazen campaign of illegally torrenting, scraping, and downloading copyrighted works.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The complaint, which was submitted late Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, was initially reported by Music Business Worldwide. The publishers accuse Anthropic of \u201cblatant theft\u201d by utilizing thousands of copyrighted materials to develop its AI model Claude. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe contest the publishers\u2019 allegations and plan to defend ourselves vigorously in court,\u201d an Anthropic spokesperson stated in an emailed comment to TechCrunch. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is not the first intellectual property lawsuit Anthropic has encountered. Some of the same attorneys involved in this case also represent Concord Music Group and Universal Music Group in a lawsuit filed in January and led the Bartz v. Anthropic\u00a0case, where a group of authors accused Anthropic of employing copyrighted materials to train products such as Claude. Anthropic was ordered to pay $1.5 billion in the significant Bartz case after a judge determined that while it was permissible for the AI lab to use copyrighted works, it was illegal to acquire that content through piracy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although the cases present similar claims, there are essential distinctions. This recent lawsuit is particularly extensive and expands upon prior cases, including allegations of \u201cflagrant piracy\u201d through illegal torrenting to obtain millions of copies of books, which includes those containing lyrics and sheet music. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Article was revised to incorporate Anthropic\u2019s statement. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/sony-music-and-warner-have-filed-a-lawsuit-against-anthropic-claiming-a-bold-initiative-of-theft-regarding-intellectual-property.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sony Music Publishing, Warner Chappell, and various other music publishers have filed a lawsuit against Anthropic and co-founders Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann, claiming the AI lab initiated a \u201cbrazen campaign of illegally torrenting, scraping, and downloading copyrighted works.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The complaint, which was submitted late Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, was initially reported by Music Business Worldwide. The publishers accuse Anthropic of \u201cblatant theft\u201d by utilizing thousands of copyrighted materials to develop its AI model Claude. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe contest the publishers\u2019 allegations and plan to defend ourselves vigorously in court,\u201d an Anthropic spokesperson stated in an emailed comment to TechCrunch. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is not the first intellectual property lawsuit Anthropic has encountered. Some of the same attorneys involved in this case also represent Concord Music Group and Universal Music Group in a lawsuit filed in January and led the Bartz v. Anthropic\u00a0case, where a group of authors accused Anthropic of employing copyrighted materials to train products such as Claude. Anthropic was ordered to pay $1.5 billion in the significant Bartz case after a judge determined that while it was permissible for the AI lab to use copyrighted works, it was illegal to acquire that content through piracy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although the cases present similar claims, there are essential distinctions. This recent lawsuit is particularly extensive and expands upon prior cases, including allegations of \u201cflagrant piracy\u201d through illegal torrenting to obtain millions of copies of books, which includes those containing lyrics and sheet music. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Article was revised to incorporate Anthropic\u2019s statement. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3491734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3491733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3491733"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3491733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3491733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3491734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3491733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3491733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3491733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}