What Happened

Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music have filed a lawsuit against AI developer Anthropic. The case was brought in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Along with the company itself, CEO Dario Amodei and co-founder Benjamin Mann are named as defendants.

The Core Claims

The music publishers allege that Anthropic systematically uploaded and used copyrighted music tracks while training its Claude AI models. They say Anthropic tapped into catalogs the publishers own without getting any kind of permission.

Compensation Demands

The plaintiffs want up to $150,000 in damages for each song they claim was used without authorization. The lawsuit summary doesn't specify exactly how many works are involved or list them out.