“Zlibrary my beloved”: Anthropic staff chats extolling piracy cited in Sony suit
Ars Technica
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Lawsuit: Anthropic’s torrenting totally screwed songwriters as AI songs top charts.
Lawsuit: Anthropic’s torrenting totally screwed songwriters as AI songs top charts.
Some of the world’s leading music publishers think that Anthropic got off too light in a historic settlement where the Claude maker paid authors $1.5 billion after admitting to pirating more than 7 million books to train AI.
“$1.5 billion is obviously not a large enough settlement to deter infringing conduct by a company that has parlayed such mass infringement into a staggering $2-trillion-dollar valuation,” music publishers said in a lawsuit filed Friday.
Music publishers suing Anthropic include Sony, EMI, and Warner Chappell. They alleged that Anthropic’s illegal torrenting also included “thousands upon thousands” of their copyrighted musical compositions.
Songwriters who are increasingly competing with AI-generated works in music charts are harmed by that piracy, their complaint said.…
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