Sony, Warner Music sue Anthropic, saying it pirated songs to train its AI

Anthropic pirated hundreds of song lyrics from The Beatles, Taylor Swift, Michael Jackson and other artists, lawsuit says.Published On 31 Aug 202631 Aug 2026The music publishing branches of Sony Music and Warner Music have sued Anthropic in United States federal court in California for allegedly misusing their copyrighted song compositions to train its Claude AI models.Sony and Warner said in the complaint, filed on Friday, that Anthropic pirated hundreds of song lyrics and sheet music from The Beatles, Taylor Swift, Michael Jackson and hundreds of other artists to train Claude to respond to human prompts.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemslist 1 of 4Xi, Modi and Putin attend SCO summit: What’s on the agenda?list 2 of 4Who are the economic winners and losers of the US-Israel war on Iran?list 3 of 4‘The time has come’: Messi retires from international footballlist 4 of 4Iran could face economic collapse in months, US Treasury’s Bessent warnsend of listThe lawsuit is the latest in a wave of cases brought against tech companies by copyright owners, including authors, publishers, music labels and news outlets, over the use of their work to train artificial intelligence systems. Univers...