# Sony and Warner Sue Anthropic for Copyright Violations

> Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell have sued Anthropic, accusing the company of building Claude on top of more than 20,000 copyrighted songs that were never licensed. The complaint describes what it calls a brazen campaign of illegally torrenting, scraping and downloading music, and the disputed catalog reportedly reaches from the Beatles and Michael Jackson to Taylor Swift. The publishers are asking for as much as 150,000 dollars per work, plus another 25,000 dollars each time copyright management information was stripped away. The suit lands with real weight because Anthropic has been here before. It recently settled Bartz v. Anthropic, a separate piracy case, for 1.5 billion dollars, so the labels are pressing claims against a company that has already shown it will pay to make training-data litigation go away. The case is another front in the widening fight over whether scraping creative work to train models counts as infringement, and how much that habit will ultimately cost the AI industry.

_Section: [Daily AI Updates](https://www.wortins.com/daily-ai) · Source: TechCrunch · Published Wednesday, September 2, 2026_

## Wortins' read

Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell have sued Anthropic, accusing the company of building Claude on top of more than 20,000 copyrighted songs that were never licensed. The complaint describes what it calls a brazen campaign of illegally torrenting, scraping and downloading music, and the disputed catalog reportedly reaches from the Beatles and Michael Jackson to Taylor Swift. The publishers are asking for as much as 150,000 dollars per work, plus another 25,000 dollars each time copyright management information was stripped away. The suit lands with real weight because Anthropic has been here before. It recently settled Bartz v. Anthropic, a separate piracy case, for 1.5 billion dollars, so the labels are pressing claims against a company that has already shown it will pay to make training-data litigation go away. The case is another front in the widening fight over whether scraping creative work to train models counts as infringement, and how much that habit will ultimately cost the AI industry.

## Source

[Read the full story at TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/29/sony-music-warner-sue-anthropic-alleging-a-brazen-campaign-of-intellectual-property-theft/)

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