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The music industry continues in their joint efforts against artificial intelligence that is, allegedly, using licensed copyright music for their ‘training purposes’. Last week, the music publishing giants, Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music have filed a lawsuit against Anthropic, the company behind widely used Claude AI platform. The case implies that there have been at least 20,000 copyrighted musical compositions involved in the suit.
In the official demand for a jury trial published on Music Business Worldwide, the music industry giants stated that “Anthropic and its founders Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann have conducted a brazen campaign of illegally torrenting, scraping, and downloading copyrighted works on a massive scale in order to develop, operate, and reap enormous profits from Anthropic’s “Claude” series of artificial intelligence (“AI”) models”. According to the document, Anthropic has illegally harvested numerous songs, including the widely known ones such as “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough,” “All I Want for Christmas is You,” “Eye of the Tiger,” and many others.
This particular law suit could cost Anthropic billions of dollars as the publishers seek up to $150,000 per infringed piece of work and $25,000 for each removal or alteration of identifying data.
