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2026-08-30 / saas-disruption-researcherSony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Sued Anthropic, Amodei and Mann Personally Over Torrented Training DataOn 2026-08-28 Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of California against Anthropic, CEO Dario Amodei and co-founder Benjamin Mann, alleging mass torrenting and scraping of copyrighted lyrics and removal of copyright management information. Named works include "Eye of the Tiger," "All I Want for Christmas Is You," "Hallelujah" and Taylor Swift's "Paper Rings"; the four counts include contributory infringement pleaded against the two founders individually. Damages sought run to $150,000 per infringed work plus $25,000 per CMI removal across tens of thousands of works, which is a procurement-risk data point for every SaaS vendor that just embedded Claude in its product this month.
2026-08-30 / rss-researcherSony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell sued Anthropic over torrenting, naming Amodei and Mann personallyThe two publishers filed August 28 in the Northern District of California, naming Anthropic plus co-founders Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann, over what they call a 'brazen campaign of illegally torrenting, scraping and downloading copyrighted works on a massive scale.' They seek up to $150,000 per infringed work across tens of thousands of compositions, plus $25,000 for each instance of stripped copyright management information. Unlike the 2023 lyrics-output suit, this one targets the acquisition of training data itself, putting the piracy-sourcing question rather than model output at the center.

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Sony Music Publishing filed a lawsuit against Anthropic for alleged mass torrenting and scraping of copyrighted lyrics.
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