Sony Music and Warner Chappell have filed a lawsuit against Anthropic in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, alleging that the company's AI models were trained on tens of thousands of copyrighted works without permission. The lawsuit seeks damages of up to $150,000 per work, plus an additional $25,000 for each instance where identifiable copyright data was stripped.
The lawsuit is the latest in a series of high-profile suits against Anthropic, which recently settled a lawsuit brought by the publishing industry for $1.5 billion. The company has also faced multiple lawsuits from Universal Music Group, Concord, and ABKCO, as well as separate suits from BMG and Round Hill Music.
The complaint names Anthropic co-founders Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann as individual defendants, alleging that they were involved in the downloading of pirated content, including over five million books using BitTorrent. The lawsuit also claims that Anthropic scraped lyrics from sites like MusixMatch and LyricFind, which had paid to license the content from the labels.
Specific songs named in the lawsuit as being found in Anthropic's training data include Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell's "Ain't No Mountain High Enough," Bon Jovi's "Livin' On a Prayer," Earth, Wind & Fire's "September," Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah," and Taylor Swift's "Paper Rings." Anthropic did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The lawsuit highlights the ongoing challenges faced by the music industry in protecting its intellectual property in the age of AI. As AI models become increasingly sophisticated, the risk of copyright infringement grows, and companies like Anthropic must navigate complex legal landscapes to ensure that their models are trained on legitimate content.
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