Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell are suing Anthropic

Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell have filed a lawsuit against Anthropic in the US District Court for the Northern District of California. They are seeking damages for "tens of thousands" of copyrighted works, calling it "one of the largest and most blatant ongoing thefts of intellectual property in history." The companies are asking for up to $150,000 per work, plus up to $25,000 for each instance where copyright data was stripped, potentially totaling several billion dollars.