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Why it matters
Music publishers sue Anthropic over copyrighted song lyrics
The Guardian AI Anthropic sued over alleged theft of ‘tens of thousands’ of songs
Sony Music Publishing and other major labels have sued Anthropic, alleging the AI startup used tens of thousands of copyrighted songs to train its Claude models.
Why it matters
The multibillion-dollar lawsuit could set a major legal precedent regarding how AI companies train their models on copyrighted creative works.
Latest brief · Sep 2, 2026