Sony Music, Warner sue Anthropic, alleging a “brazen campaign” of intellectual property theft
Sony Music, Warner sue Anthropic, alleging a “brazen campaign” of intellectual property theft
索尼音乐与华纳起诉 Anthropic，指控其进行“厚颜无耻”的知识产权盗窃活动
Sony Music Publishing, Warner Chappell and numerous other music publishers have sued Anthropic and co-founders Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann, alleging the AI lab conducted a “brazen campaign of illegally torrenting, scraping, and downloading copyrighted works.” 索尼音乐出版公司（Sony Music Publishing）、华纳查普尔音乐（Warner Chappell）及其他多家音乐出版商已对 Anthropic 及其联合创始人达里奥·阿莫代（Dario Amodei）和本杰明·曼（Benjamin Mann）提起诉讼，指控该人工智能实验室开展了一场“通过非法种子下载、抓取和下载受版权保护作品的厚颜无耻的运动”。
The lawsuit, which was filed late Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, was first reported by Music Business Worldwide. The publishers accuse Anthropic of “blatant theft” by using thousands of copyrighted works to train its AI model Claude. 该诉讼于周五晚间在美国加利福尼亚北区联邦地区法院提起，最初由《音乐商业全球》（Music Business Worldwide）报道。出版商指控 Anthropic 使用数千部受版权保护的作品来训练其 AI 模型 Claude，属于“公然盗窃”。
“We disagree with the publishers’ claims and we intend to defend ourselves robustly in court,” an Anthropic spokesperson wrote in an emailed statement sent to TechCrunch. Anthropic 的一位发言人在发给 TechCrunch 的电子邮件声明中写道：“我们不同意出版商的指控，并打算在法庭上进行强有力的辩护。”
This isn’t the first intellectual property lawsuit Anthropic has faced. Some of the same lawyers behind this lawsuit also represent Concord Music Group and Universal Music Group in a case filed in January and led the Bartz v. Anthropic case, in which a group of authors accused Anthropic of using copyrighted works to train products like Claude. 这并非 Anthropic 面临的首起知识产权诉讼。参与此次诉讼的部分律师也曾在 1 月份提起的案件中代表 Concord Music Group 和环球音乐集团（Universal Music Group），并主导了“Bartz 诉 Anthropic”一案，在该案中，一群作者指控 Anthropic 使用受版权保护的作品来训练 Claude 等产品。
Anthropic was ordered to pay $1.5 billion in the landmark Bartz case after a judge ruled that while it was legal for the AI lab to use copyrighted works, it was not legal to acquire that content through piracy. 在具有里程碑意义的 Bartz 一案中，法官裁定，虽然该 AI 实验室使用受版权保护的作品本身是合法的，但通过盗版手段获取这些内容则属于违法，因此 Anthropic 被判赔偿 15 亿美元。
While the cases make similar arguments, there are key differences. This latest lawsuit is particularly broad and builds off the other cases, including by accusing Anthropic of “flagrant piracy” through illegal torrenting to obtain millions of copies of books, including those that contain lyrics and sheet music. 尽管这些案件的论点相似，但仍存在关键差异。最新的这起诉讼范围特别广泛，并在前述案件的基础上进一步扩展，指控 Anthropic 通过非法种子下载进行“猖獗的盗版”活动，以获取数百万份书籍副本，其中包括包含歌词和乐谱的作品。