# Sony Music and Warner Chappell sue Anthropic

https://mins.news/en/item/37053

- The Verge, 2026-08-29 18:19 UTC
- Tech
- Original: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/986438/sony-music-warner-chappell-anthropic-lawsuit-copyright

> Sony Music and Warner Chappell have sued Anthropic in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, seeking damages over tens of thousands of copyrighted works. They describe the alleged conduct as one of history’s “largest and most blatant ongoing thefts of intellectual property”; maximum damages could reach several billion dollars. The complaint also names Anthropic co-founders Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann as individual defendants and alleges large-scale downloading and scraping of copyrighted material to develop Claude.

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