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Sony and Warner sued Anthropic over music used to train Claude
Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell sued Anthropic, CEO Dario Amodei, and co-founder Benjamin Mann in the Northern District of California on Friday, August 28. They ask for up to $150,000 per willfully infringed work and up to $25,000 per alleged copyright-management-information strip. That is the statutory ask, not a verdict. Anthropic told TechCrunch and Axios it disagrees and will defend itself in court.
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YouTube explainer: the suit names two founders personally
Read sourceSeven-minute explainer of Sony and Warner Chapel suing Anthropic in Northern California on Friday, August 28, joined by affiliated publishers. Statutory ask up to $150,000 per willfully infringed work plus up to $25,000 for stripped copyright notice. Bartz $1.5 billion is prior settlement, not this verdict.