Anthropic · Claude · Ars Technica
Through discovery, publishers claim they will reveal the “full extent” of Anthropic’s torrenting, the complaint said
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Publishers acknowledged that Anthropic denies using any of the books that they torrented from LibGen and PiLiMi to train commercial Claude AI models.
Key facts
- $1.5 billion is obviously not a large enough settlement to deter infringing conduct by a company that has parlayed such mass infringement into a staggering $2-trillion-dollar valuation,” music
- Some of the world’s leading music publishers think that Anthropic got off too light in a historic settlement where the Claude maker paid authors $1.5 billion after admitting to pirating more than 7
- Music publishers suing Anthropic include Sony, EMI, and Warner Chappell
- Songwriters who are increasingly competing with AI-generated works in music charts are harmed by that piracy, their complaint said
Summary
Some of the world’s leading music publishers think that Anthropic got off too light in a historic settlement where the Claude maker paid authors $1.5 billion after admitting to pirating more than 7 million books to train AI. “$1.5 billion is obviously not a large enough settlement to deter infringing conduct by a company that has parlayed such mass infringement into a staggering $2-trillion-dollar valuation,” music publishers said in a lawsuit filed Friday. Music publishers suing Anthropic include Sony, EMI, and Warner Chappell. Songwriters who are increasingly competing with AI-generated works in music charts are harmed by that piracy, their complaint said. Pirated books that Anthropic allegedly plans to keep “forever” to train AI include titles featuring the complete works of the Beatles, Taylor Swift’s “best” songs, and “VH1’s 100 Greatest Songs of Rock & Roll.