{"id":157498,"date":"2026-09-01T06:30:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T06:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/157498\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T06:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T06:30:13","slug":"major-music-labels-sue-anthropic-over-misuse-of-tens-of-thousands-of-copyrighted-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/157498\/","title":{"rendered":"Major Music Labels Sue Anthropic Over Misuse Of “Tens Of Thousands” Of Copyrighted Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell, two major music publishers, have taken legal action against artificial intelligence (AI) firm Anthropic, The Guardian<\/a> reported. The publishers, who manage the copyright of songs on behalf of songwriters and composers, sought damages from the AI firm for alleged misuse of “tens of thousands” of copyrighted works.<\/p>\n

The multibillion-dollar lawsuit was filed in a California court against Dario Amodei, the chief executive of Anthropic, and also targeted co-founder Benjamin Mann. The legal action accuses the company of unlawfully scraping, downloading, and using copyrighted songs to train its flagship AI assistant, Claude.<\/p>\n

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The lawsuit claims that Anthropic obtained protected musical compositions without permission or payment, and besides training its models, Claude can output exact or near-exact song lyrics when prompted. This, according to the lawsuit, directly undercuts licensed lyric platforms and deprives songwriters and publishers of earned royalties.<\/p>\n

According to the report, the compositions include Mariah Carey’s All I Want for Christmas is You, Ain’t No Mountain High Enough, originally performed by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell, and Survivor’s Eye of the Tiger.<\/p>\n

The plaintiffs noted that they are victims of “one of the largest and most blatant ongoing thefts of intellectual property in history”.<\/p>\n

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“Defendants specifically elected to harvest unauthorized copies of Music Publishers’ works so that they would not have to pay Music Publishers a licensing fee to use their works in AI training and development,” the plaintiffs said as quoted by the media outlet.<\/p>\n

The publishers are demanding a jury trial and maximum statutory damages of $150,000 per infringed work, which could aggregate into billions of dollars in potential penalties. As per the lawsuit, at least 20,000 works are involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell, two major music publishers, have taken legal action against artificial intelligence (AI)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[53,75536,75529],"class_list":["post-157498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anthropic","tag-anthropic","tag-sony-music-publishing","tag-warner-chappell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}