Sony Music, Warner sue Anthropic, alleging a “brazen campaign” of intellectual property theft

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Major music labels including Sony and Warner are suing Anthropic, alleging the company illegally scraped copyrighted song lyrics to train its Claude models. The lawsuit claims that asking Claude for lyrics to famous songs results in near-verbatim output, which the labels argue is massive intellectual property theft. This case joins a growing list of legal battles determining if 'fair use' covers training AI on the entire internet.