Sony Music and Warner Chappell are suing Anthropic

Sony Music and Warner Chappell have filed a lawsuit against Anthropic in the US District Court for the Northern District of California. The companies allege a brazen campaign of intellectual property theft and illegal piracy involving tens of thousands of copyrighted works. They are seeking damages of up to $150,000 per work, along with $25,000 for each instance where identifiable copyright data was stripped. This broad legal action focuses on accusations of systemic piracy and copyright infringement.