Anthropic sued over alleged theft of ‘tens of thousands’ of songs

Source: www.theguardian.com · Section: business-tech · Bias: Center-Left · Published: Mon, 31 Aug 2026 12:42:05 GMT

AI company faces multibillion dollar lawsuit over misuse of copyrighted songs to train Claude modelsAll AI wants for Christmas is a vast back catalogue of songs without paying for it, according to a multibillion-dollar lawsuit against the startup behind the Claude chatbot.Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell, music publishers who manage the copyright of songs on behalf of songwriters and composers, are seeking damages for alleged misuse of “tens of thousands” of copyrighted works by Anthropic. Continue reading...

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