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Major record labels are suing Anthropic for allegedly using torrented music and songs to train Claude, arguing the $1.5 billion settlement with authors doesn't adequately punish the company. They claim Anthropic founders personally downloaded millions of copyrighted works and plan to keep using them indefinitely.
- Sony, EMI, and Warner Chappell allege Anthropic illegally downloaded "thousands upon thousands" of copyrighted songs via BitTorrent starting in July 2021, including works by Taylor Swift, Eminem, and the Beatles.
- Anthropic co-founder Benjamin Mann personally conducted the torrenting, with CEO Dario Amodei's approval; both are named as individual defendants.
- Publishers argue the $1.5 billion book settlement is insufficient deterrent given Anthropic's $2 trillion valuation, and that Claude can now generate songs mimicking artists' styles and reproduce lyrics verbatim, directly harming songwriters competing against AI-generated music.