Sony and Warner Sue Anthropic and CEO Dario Amodei Over Mass Music Copyright Theft
The Decoder · rss · 2026-08-30
Sony Music, Warner Music, and other publishers are suing Anthropic and CEO Dario Amodei personally, alleging the company used tens of thousands of copyrighted musical compositions to train Claude without permission — calling it "one of the largest and most blatant ongoing thefts of intellectual property in history."
The suit comes just months after Anthropic paid $1.5 billion to settle with book authors, opening yet another major copyright battle for the company.
More from Companies & People
- OpenAI DevDay hands out Codex 'pet' collector cards, attendees show them off — gabrielchua · 2026-10-16
- ML researcher Emtiyaz Khan moves to TU Darmstadt, hiring PhD students via ELISS — EmtiyazKhan · 2026-10-16
- Tripo hosts first world-building hackathon in SF with World Labs and Runway talks — mhdfaran · 2026-10-16
- Dev warns enterprises: OpenAI and Anthropic products are an IP security risk — examachine · 2026-10-16
- a16z podcast: Can AI run the systems after writing the code? — a16z Podcast · 2026-10-16
- Zuckerberg backs electrician training school as US datacenter construction outpaces offices — emmanuelvivier · 2026-10-16