Sony Music and Warner Chappell Sue Anthropic Over Copyright Training Data

Sony Music and Warner Chappell have filed a multi-billion-dollar lawsuit against Anthropic, alleging that the company illegally downloaded and scraped copyrighted works to train its Claude model. The plaintiffs describe the practice as "the largest and most blatant theft of intellectual property in history," seeking up to $150,000 per infringed work, with potential damages reaching billions of dollars. Anthropic said it will vigorously defend itself. The lawsuit is among the most significant copyright challenges facing AI companies, highlighting the ongoing legal battle over the use of copyrighted material in AI training datasets.