All three major music publishers end up in court over training data

Claim

Sony and Warner Chappell sued Anthropic, and Dario Amodei personally, alleging tens of thousands of pirated songs trained Claude, putting all three major music publishers in court against it, while chatbot logs surfaced in twelve court cases.

Reported metric: 12 court cases

Reporting date: 2026-08-31 (not necessarily the event date)

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