Sony accuses Anthropic of 'brazen campaign' to train Claude on its music — and wants up to $150,000 a song

Sony Music and Warner Chappell have filed a lawsuit against Anthropic, the company behind the AI model Claude, accusing it of illegally using copyrighted music to train its models. The lawsuit, filed in a Northern California district court, also names Anthropic's cofounders Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann. The music companies allege that Anthropic engaged in a 'brazen campaign' of torrenting, scraping, and downloading copyrighted works on a massive scale, and they are seeking damages of up to $150,000 per song.

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