Dario Amodei · Anthropic · California · TechCrunch AI
Sony Music, Warner sue Anthropic, alleging a “brazen campaign” of intellectual property theft
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Sony Music Publishing, Warner Chappell and numerous other music publishers have sued Anthropic and co-founders Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann, alleging the AI lab conducted a “brazen campaign of illegally torrenting, scraping, and downloading copyrighted works.”
Key facts
- Anthropic was ordered to pay $1.5 billion in the landmark Bartz case after a judge ruled that while it was legal for the AI lab to use copyrighted works, it was not legal to acquire that content
- The lawsuit, which was filed late Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, was first reported by Music Business Worldwide
- Sony Music Publishing, Warner Chappell and numerous other music publishers have sued Anthropic and co-founders Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann, alleging the AI lab conducted a “brazen campaign of illegally torrenting, scraping, and downloading copyrighted works
- This isn’t the first intellectual property lawsuit Anthropic has faced
Summary
District Court for the Northern District of California, was first reported by Music Business Worldwide. “We disagree with the publishers’ claims and we intend to defend ourselves robustly in court,” an Anthropic spokesperson wrote in an emailed statement sent to TechCrunch. This isn’t the first intellectual property lawsuit Anthropic has faced. While the cases make similar arguments, there are key differences.