Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music have filed a copyright lawsuit against Anthropic and its co-founders, Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann, alleging the company illegally acquired thousands …
Thirty-five music-publishing entities, including Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music, sued Anthropic, CEO Dario Amodei and co-founder Benjamin Mann in the U.S. District Court for the North…
Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music filed a federal copyright lawsuit against Anthropic on August 28, naming CEO Dario Amodei and co-founder Benjamin Mann as defendants, alleging the compa…
Sony Music Publishing, Warner Chappell, and other music publishers sued Anthropic and co-founders Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, all…
A notice of appeal has been filed in Bartz v. Anthropic, likely delaying the payout to class members for several years unless the appeal pertains only to attorneys' fees or the service award. Under th…
AI companies are buying old printed books to train their models, with ISBNdb offering high-volume book acquisition services, because clean human text has become scarce. Epoch AI estimated in a 2024 pa…
Anthropic's support page states that users own Claude's outputs but its Terms of Service prohibit using those outputs to train models competitive with Anthropic, a restriction enforced through account…
Anthropic has filed a counterclaim of non-infringement against opt-outee and book author Daniel Benjamin Gilbert in the Bartz v. Anthropic copyright suit, following a trend started by Nanoble, represe…
India's Delhi High Court on July 24 rejected Asian News International's bid to bar OpenAI from using its copyrighted articles to train ChatGPT, ruling that storing works for training large language mo…
A federal judge granted final approval on July 20, 2026, to Anthropic's $1.5 billion copyright settlement in Bartz v. Anthropic, the largest copyright class action settlement in U.S. history, but auth…
A viral story claiming AI company Anthropic destroyed two million rare books is misleading, according to researcher Charlie Becker, who found the books were mostly obsolete items like 1995 travel guid…
A US federal judge approved a $1.5 billion class-action settlement in Bartz v. Anthropic on July 20, 2026, ruling that using pirated books to train AI models is copyright infringement but that using l…
AI companies are bulk-buying physical books, having them industrially scanned, and then shredding the originals, according to a Futurism investigation. The practice, brokered by data firm ISBNdb under…
Anthropic has agreed to a $1.5 billion class-action settlement after using pirated books from Library Genesis and Pirate Library Mirror to train its Claude AI model, covering roughly 500,000 copyright…
Reddit called Anthropic a 'freeriding pirate' in a July 17 court filing opposing the AI company's attempt to dismiss a lawsuit over alleged scraping of Reddit content, citing the court ruling behind A…
Bloomsbury, the London publisher known for the Harry Potter series, will collect a share of Anthropic's $1.5 billion copyright settlement, the largest in US history, after a federal judge approved the…
Anthropic has agreed to a $1.5 billion settlement in a lawsuit accusing it of using pirated books to train its AI model, Claude. The Bartz v. Anthropic case claimed the company unlawfully accessed app…
Anthropic, the maker of the Claude AI assistant, faces a consumer lawsuit alleging it oversold subscription usage limits, with the plaintiff claiming the service failed to deliver advertised access. T…