https://www.live-feeds.com/feed/anthropic-sued-over-alleged-theft-of-tens-of-thousands-of-songsContinuously updated, source-cited coverage. https://www.live-feeds.com/feed/anthropic-sued-over-alleged-theft-of-tens-of-thousands-of-songshttps://www.live-feeds.com/feed/anthropic-sued-over-alleged-theft-of-tens-of-thousands-of-songs#u54290Wed, 02 Sep 2026 02:56:31 +0000Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell have filed a multi-billion dollar lawsuit against Anthropic, alleging the company engaged in a "brazen campaign" to train its Claude AI on copyrighted music. The publishers claim Anthropic committed "blatant theft" of tens of thousands of songs. Sony is seeking damages of up to $150,000 per song. The lawsuit alleges that Anthropic pirated the music to develop its AI models, citing internal staff communications that reportedly praise the piracy site Zlibrary.Why it mattersThis legal action targets the training data used for Large Lan