Some of the worldβs 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.
β$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,β music publishers said in a lawsuit filed Friday.
Music publishers suing Anthropic include Sony, EMI, and Warner Chappell. They alleged that Anthropicβs illegal torrenting also included βthousands upon thousandsβ of their copyrighted musical compositions.
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