Sony Music and Warner Chappell Seek Up to $150,000 Per Song From Anthropic
Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music accuse Anthropic and its cofounders Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann of illegally torrenting, scraping, and downloading copyrighted works on a massive scale to develop and run the Claude AI models. The complaint says Anthropic collected thousands of songs, including Eye of the Tiger and Taylor Swift tracks, and points to a June 2025 ruling on millions of pirated books, arguing this enables AI-generated lyrics that could compete with human-made songs.