# Sony Music Publishing

Type: Company

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## Timeline

- **2026-08-31**: Lawsuit publicly reported — The Guardian and Yahoo News report details, including the prior $1.5 billion authors' settlement cited in the complaint.
- **2026-08-28**: Lawsuit filed in California — Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell sue Anthropic, Dario Amodei, and Benjamin Mann over alleged misuse of tens of thousands of songs to train Claude models.

## Recent coverage (1 stories)

### Anthropic Sued Over 'Tens of Thousands' of Songs as Publishers Seek Billions
2026-09-01 01:00:41 · Sentiment: Negative · Impact: 7/10 · Sources: 2

Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell target Anthropic, CEO Dario Amodei, and co-founder Benjamin Mann in a multibillion-dollar copyright action alleging mass lyric scraping and reproduction by Claude. The case surfaces executive liability and imports evidence from a prior $1.5 billion authors settlement.
Full story: https://getlegalbrief.com/story/anthropic-sony-warner-music-copyright-lawsuit-claude

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