EventLegalAugust 31, 2026

Sony, Warner sue Anthropic over alleged music piracy

Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell sued Anthropic, Dario Amodei, and Benjamin Mann on August 28, alleging a "brazen campaign" of torrenting, scraping, and downloading copyrighted songs to train Claude. The suit follows Anthropic's $1.5B settlement in the Bartz case over pirating 7M+ books.

People · Dario Amodei, Benjamin Mann

How this story unfolded

3 days · 3 reports · 3 community posts · from Aug 29

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