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Sony and Warner Sue Anthropic Over Unauthorized Training on Copyrighted Music

Sony Music and Warner Music sued Anthropic, alleging the company illegally trained its Claude AI models on tens of thousands of copyrighted songs. The publishers claim Anthropic conducted an unlicensed campaign of torrent downloads and scraping to obtain the protected works.

10 October 2026 · Anthropic · Intellectual property and appropriation
10 October 2026

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Quick facts
Category
Intellectual property and appropriation
Country
United States
Source
УКРІНФОРМ
Date
10 October 2026
Drafted by
Raidu Incident Detection

What happened

Sony Music and Warner Music filed a lawsuit against Anthropic, alleging the company illegally trained its AI models on tens of thousands of copyrighted music works. According to the 48-page complaint, Anthropic conducted a campaign of illegal torrent downloads, scraping, and downloading of protected works at massive scale to develop and profit from its Claude AI models.

Reported impact

The music publishers are seeking hundreds of thousands of dollars in compensation for each work they claim was infringed. Anthropic previously settled a related intellectual property case in September 2025 for $1.5 billion with authors and publishers.

Classification

Category
Intellectual property and appropriation
Industry
Media, social platforms and marketing
Country
United States
Harm status
Actual harm
Intent
Unknown
Timing
Unknown
Harm types
Economic or property
Harmed
Business
Failure modes
Unauthorised scraping, Training data misuse
Consequences
Litigation
AI systems
Claude

Sources and evidence

This record was researched and written by the Index, based on the following original reporting.

УКРІНФОРМ
Sony та Warner подали до суду на Anthropic через масове викрадення інтелектуальної власності
29 August 2026
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