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What you need to know The filing. Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music filed suit against Anthropic in the US District Court for the Northern District of California on 28 August 2026. Who is named. The defendants include Anthropic PBC, chief executive Dario Amodei and co-founder Benjamin Mann, the last two as individual defendants. The core allegation. The complaint alleges Anthropic illegally downloaded, scraped and torrented copyrighted musical compositions in order to train its models. The alleged sources. According to the publishers, those sources included the pirate archives Library Genesis and the Pirate Library Mirror, and licensed lyric sites including Musixmatch and LyricFind were also scraped. The scale claimed. The complaint identifies "tens of thousands" of the…
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