Sony Music and Warner Chappell sue Anthropic, Dario Amodei, and Benjamin Mann, alleging tens of thousands of copyrighted songs were used to train Claude's LLMs (Tim Ingham/Music Business Worldwide) — SkimNews
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- Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music jointly sued Anthropic, with the complaint personally naming CEO Dario Amodei and co-founder Benjamin Mann as defendants alongside the company.
- The publishers allege that tens of thousands of their copyrighted songs were used without authorization to train Anthropic's Claude large language models.
- Tim Ingham's Music Business Worldwide broke the news, with The Verge, TechCrunch, and Axios all picking up the story within hours of filing.
Why it matters: Naming CEO Dario Amodei and co-founder Benjamin Mann individually—beyond just the corporate defendant—puts personal liability on the table for AI lab executives and forces Anthropic to defend its training pipeline against tens of thousands of alleged infringements at once.
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