Aug 28 2026

Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell sue Anthropic, naming Dario Amodei individually, over torrented song catalogs

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Filed in the Northern District of California, alleging BitTorrent downloads from Library Genesis and Pirate Library Mirror plus scraping of MusixMatch and LyricFind. 'Tens of thousands' of compositions named, up to $150,000 per work in statutory damages sought, and the 2023 UMG/Concord/ABKCO output guardrails called 'easily circumventable.'

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