Sony Music Publishing just sued Anthropic for copyright infringement in the Northern District of California.
**Count I—Direct Copyright Infringement by Torrenting (Against All Defendants)Count II—Contributory Infringement by Torrenting (Against Dario Amodeiand Benjamin Mann)****Count III—Direct Copyright Infringement (Against Anthropic)**Count IV—Removal or Alteration of Copyright Management Information(Against Anthropic)
This complaint looks quite similar to * Concord Music v. Anthropic II*, filed by the same law firm. The Concord cluster of cases are before Judge Lee:
Concord Music I and IIand
BMG v. Anthropic. Expect this new one to be reassigned to her as well.
This is copyright suit No. 13 against Anthropic:
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source & further reading
chatgptiseatingtheworld.com — original article
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