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The publishers are seeking up to $150,000 per composition and named Anthropic co-founders Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann as defendants
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei (Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Sony $SONY Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music filed suit against Anthropic in California federal court last Friday, alleging that the AI company pirated copyrighted songs to train its Claude models. Anthropic co-founders Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann were named as defendants alongside the company.
According to Axios, the complaint charges that Anthropic trained its models on "tens of thousands" of the publishers' copyrighted compositions without permission. The 48-page complaint describes the conduct as "one of the largest and most blatant ongoing thefts of intellectual property in history." Songs cited in the lawsuit include Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas is You," Taylor Swift's "Paper Rings," Marvin Gaye's "Ain't No Mountain High Enough," and the 1980s rock anthem "Eye of the Tiger."
