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International Business Times UK
International Business Times UK
Aiza Moraña

Anthropic Accused of Pirating Beatles, Taylor Swift and Michael Jackson Songs for Claude, Faces $150K Per-Work Damages

Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell have filed a lawsuit against AI developer Anthropic, alleging illegal use of copyrighted music to train AI models, seeking damages up to £115,000 per work (Credit: Photo by Andreas Forsberg on Unsplash)

Anthropic is facing a federal copyright lawsuit in California from major music publishers Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell, which accuse the artificial intelligence company of illegally copying songs by artists including The Beatles, Taylor Swift and Michael Jackson to train its Claude models.

The publishers are seeking statutory damages of up to $150,000 for each copyrighted work they say was infringed.

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