Sony Music and Warner Chappell want Anthropic to pay up.
The publishing companies filed a lawsuit against Anthropic in a Northern California district court on Friday. Anthropic cofounders Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann were also named in the filing.
Sony Music and Warner Chappell requested a jury trial. They’re seeking statutory damages from Anthropic, including up to $150,000 for each composition it used to train Claude.
“Even the most revolutionary of technologies must develop within the bounds of the law, and Anthropic’s Claude models are no different,” the companies said in the complaint.
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