Sony and Warner sue Anthropic over "one of the largest and most blatant ongoing thefts of intellectual property in history"

Sony Music and Warner Chappell have filed a lawsuit against Anthropic, alleging the unauthorized use of thousands of copyrighted song lyrics to train its AI models. The publishers are seeking significant statutory damages, arguing that the company’s systems infringe on intellectual property by reproducing protected material. This legal action escalates the ongoing conflict between music rights holders and generative AI developers, setting a potential precedent for how copyright law applies to the data used in training large language models.