Sony Music and Warner Chappell are suing Anthropic

Sony Music and Warner Chappell are suing Anthropic (a company that makes AI systems) in federal court, claiming that Anthropic used tens of thousands of copyrighted songs and compositions to train its AI without permission. The lawsuit seeks up to $150,000 per work plus $25,000 for each instance where copyright information was removed, potentially totaling billions of dollars in damages if the companies win.