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Sony and Warner sue Anthropic over "one of the largest and most blatant ongoing thefts of intellectual property in history"

索尼与华纳起诉Anthropic,指控其大规模盗用版权音乐训练Claude

Sony and Warner sue Anthropic over "one of the largest and most blatant ongoing thefts of intellectual property in history"

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Sony Music, Warner Music, and other publishers are suing Anthropic and CEO Dario Amodei personally for allegedly using tens of thousands of copyrighted musical compositions to train Claude without permission. The plaintiffs call it "one of the largest and most blatant ongoing thefts of intellectual property in history." Just months after paying $1.5 billion to settle with book authors, Anthropic faces another major copyright fight.

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