{"id":18247,"date":"2026-08-30T09:39:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T09:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/?p=18247"},"modified":"2026-08-30T09:39:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T09:39:14","slug":"sony-music-warner-sue-anthropic-alleging-a-brazen-marketing-campaign-of-mental-property-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/?p=18247","title":{"rendered":"Sony Music, Warner sue Anthropic, alleging a &#8220;brazen marketing campaign&#8221; of mental property theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sony Music Publishing, Warner Chappell and quite a few different music publishers have sued Anthropic and co-founders Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann, alleging the AI lab performed a \u201cbrazen marketing campaign of illegally torrenting, scraping, and downloading copyrighted works.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The lawsuit, which was filed late Friday within the U.S. District Courtroom for the Northern District of California, was first reported by <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/now-sony-music-publishing-and-warner-chappell-sue-anthropic-in-multi-billion-dollar-lawsuit-one-of-the-largest-and-most-blatant-ongoing-thefts-of-intellectual-property-in-history\/\">Music Enterprise Worldwide<\/a>. The publishers accuse Anthropic of \u201cblatant theft\u201d through the use of 1000&#8217;s of copyrighted works to coach its AI mannequin Claude. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe disagree with the publishers\u2019 claims and we intend to defend ourselves robustly in court docket,\u201d an Anthropic spokesperson wrote in an emailed assertion despatched to TechCrunch. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This isn\u2019t the primary mental property lawsuit Anthropic has confronted. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/01\/29\/music-publishers-sue-anthropic-for-3b-over-flagrant-piracy-of-20000-works\/\">A number of the similar attorneys<\/a> behind this lawsuit additionally signify Harmony Music Group and Common Music Group in a case filed in January and led the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/08\/26\/anthropic-settles-ai-book-training-lawsuit-with-authors\/\">Bartz v. Anthropic<\/a>\u00a0case, during which a bunch of authors accused Anthropic of utilizing copyrighted works to coach merchandise like Claude. Anthropic was ordered to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/07\/20\/anthropics-landmark-1-5b-copyright-settlement-is-approved\/\">pay $1.5 billion<\/a> within the landmark Bartz case after a choose dominated that whereas it was authorized for the AI lab to make use of copyrighted works, it was not authorized to amass that content material via piracy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whereas the circumstances make related arguments, there are key variations. This newest lawsuit is especially broad and builds off the opposite circumstances, together with by accusing Anthropic of \u201cflagrant piracy\u201d via unlawful torrenting to acquire tens of millions of copies of books, together with those who include lyrics and sheet music. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Article was up to date to incorporate Anthropic\u2019s remark. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony Music Publishing, Warner Chappell and quite a few different music publishers have sued Anthropic and co-founders Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann, alleging the AI lab performed a \u201cbrazen marketing campaign of illegally torrenting, scraping, and downloading copyrighted works.\u201d The lawsuit, which was filed late Friday within the U.S. District Courtroom for the Northern District [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[10379,2333,10380,396,10381,884,1709,4355,3764,780,5151],"class_list":["post-18247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-news","tag-alleging","tag-anthropic","tag-brazen","tag-campaign","tag-intellectual","tag-music","tag-property","tag-sony","tag-sue","tag-theft","tag-warner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18248,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18247\/revisions\/18248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}