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Sony Music and Warner Chappell are suing Anthropic, personally naming CEO Dario Amodei, calling it one of the largest thefts of intellectual property in history. Their best evidence is book piracy Anthropic already paid 1.5 billion dollars to settle.

Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music, represented by Oppenheim + Zebrak LLP and Pryor Cashman LLP. Recorded 30 August 2026. Our ruling means: literally true, materially misleading.

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5 receipts: 3 support the claim, 0 contradict it, 2 add context. 6 figures on the record, 0 traced to a quoted receipt.

  1. 1musicbusinessworldwide.com ↗Every source link and quote stays open on the story page.
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