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<img alt="Anthropic logo on an orange and grey background." src="https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/01/STK269_ANTHROPIC_2_A.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0,0,100,100" /> <figcaption> </figcaption> </figure> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">Sony Music and Warner Chappell have filed a lawsuit against Anthropic in the US District Court for the Northern District of California. The lawsuit seeks damages for "tens of thousands" of copyrighted works, with the companies requesting up to $150,000 per work, along with up to $25,000 for each instance where identifiable copyright data was removed. If the court rules in favor of Sony and Warner, the total damages could reach several billion dollars.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">This lawsuit follows a recent settlement between Anthropic and the publishing industry, where Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5 billion. Anthropic has also faced multiple lawsuits from other music publishers regarding copyright issues.</p> <p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/986438/sony-music-warner-chappell-anthropic-lawsuit-copyright">Read the full story at The Verge.</a></p>