{"slug": "sony-music-publishing-sues-anthropic", "title": "Sony Music Publishing sues Anthropic", "summary": "Sony Music Publishing filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Anthropic in the Northern District of California, alleging direct and contributory infringement over the use of song lyrics in AI training. The suit, filed by the same law firm as the Concord Music cases, is the 13th copyright action against Anthropic and is expected to be reassigned to Judge Lee.", "body_md": "Sony Music Publishing just sued Anthropic for copyright infringement in the Northern District of California.\n\n**Count I—Direct Copyright Infringement by Torrenting (Against All Defendants)****Count II—Contributory Infringement by Torrenting (Against Dario Amodei****and Benjamin Mann)****Count III—Direct Copyright Infringement (Against Anthropic)****Count IV—Removal or Alteration of Copyright Management Information(Against Anthropic)**\n\nThis 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:\n\n*Concord Music I and II*and\n\n*BMG v. Anthropic*. Expect this new one to be reassigned to her as well.\n\nThis is copyright suit No. 13 against Anthropic:\n\n**DOWNLOAD:**", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/sony-music-publishing-sues-anthropic", "canonical_source": "https://chatgptiseatingtheworld.com/2026/08/28/sony-music-publishing-sues-anthropic/", "published_at": "2026-08-29 01:01:54+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-29 01:19:57.864000+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-policy", "ai-ethics"], "entities": ["Sony Music Publishing", "Anthropic", "Dario Amodei", "Benjamin Mann", "Concord Music", "BMG", "Judge Lee"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/sony-music-publishing-sues-anthropic", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/sony-music-publishing-sues-anthropic.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/sony-music-publishing-sues-anthropic.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/sony-music-publishing-sues-anthropic.jsonld"}}