Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell have filed a lawsuit against Anthropic in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
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Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Sue Anthropic for Copyright Infringement
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According to the complaint, the copyrighted works in question are said to number in the "tens of thousands."
As reported by The Verge, both companies are seeking damages of up to $150,000 per work.
Furthermore, they are seeking up to $25,000 per instance in cases where identifiable copyrighted data was removed.
Source: Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell are suing Anthropic (The Verge AI, 2026-08-30)