Aug 30 2026
Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell sue Anthropic, naming Dario Amodei personally, over alleged mass torrenting of copyrighted songs
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Filed in the Northern District of California, the complaint alleges BitTorrent downloads from Library Genesis and Pirate Library Mirror, scraping of MusixMatch and LyricFind, and use of Books3, Common Crawl and The Pile, seeking up to $150,000 per composition plus $25,000 per stripped copyright-management tag.
Named in this event
AnthropicDario AmodeiSony MusicWarner Chappell
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