Tuesday, 1 September, 2026
Discord in the AI Lab: Sony and Warner Music Sue Anthropic for Massive Copyright Theft
By TechShots Studio
Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music have filed a federal copyright lawsuit against Anthropic and its founders, alleging the AI developer illegally torrented, scraped, and downloaded tens of thousands of copyrighted songs to train its Claude models. The publishers accuse Anthropic of bypassing licensing fees for iconic hits by artists like Taylor Swift and The Beatles, seeking statutory damages of up to $150,000 per infringed work.