# Music publishers sue Anthropic over alleged Claude training use

_Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 11:30 AM EDT · AI · Latest · Tier 1 — Major_

Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music sued Anthropic, Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann, alleging that tens of thousands of copyrighted songs were used to train Claude's language models. The suit, reported by Music Business Worldwide, puts the publishers' training-data allegations before a court. The supplied summary does not state when the alleged use occurred or specify the damages or remedies sought.

## Sources

- [Techmeme](https://www.techmeme.com/260829/p11#a260829p11)

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