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Sony Music, Warner sue Anthropic, alleging a “brazen campaign” of intellectual property theft
Publisher description: This latest lawsuit is particularly broad and homes in on accusations of illegal piracy.
TechCrunch | Aug 29, 2026 | Kirsten Korosec
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Sony Music Publishing, Warner Chappell, and numerous other music publishers have sued Anthropic and co-founders Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann, alleging the AI lab conducted a “brazen campaign of illegally torrenting, scraping, and downloading copyrighted works. ” The lawsuit, which was filed late Friday in the U. S. This isn’t the first intellectual property lawsuit Anthropic has faced. Anthropic case, in which a group of authors accused Anthropic of using copyrighted works to train products like Claude.
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