Sony Music and Warner Chappell are suing Anthropic

索尼音乐与华纳查普尔起诉 Anthropic

Sony Music and Warner Chappell have filed suit against Anthropic in the US District Court for the Northern District of California seeking damages for “tens of thousands” of copyrighted works. The companies are asking for up to $150,000 per work, plus up to $25,000 for each instance when identifiable copyright data was stripped. In total, the damages could amount to several billion dollars if a court finds in Sony and Warner’s favor and awards the maximum amount.

索尼音乐（Sony Music）和华纳查普尔（Warner Chappell）已在美国加利福尼亚北区联邦地区法院对 Anthropic 提起诉讼，就“数以万计”的受版权保护作品寻求损害赔偿。这些公司要求每件作品赔偿最高 15 万美元，若识别出的版权数据被删除，每起案例还需额外赔偿最高 2.5 万美元。如果法院判决索尼和华纳胜诉并裁定最高赔偿金额，总赔偿额可能高达数十亿美元。

This is just the latest high-profile suit against Anthropic, which recently settled a suit brought by the publishing industry for $1.5 billion. It’s also faced multiple lawsuits from Universal Music Group, Concord, and ABKCO, plus separate suits from BMG and Round Hill Music.

这只是针对 Anthropic 的最新一起高调诉讼，该公司最近刚以 15 亿美元与出版业达成了一项诉讼和解。此外，它还面临来自环球音乐集团（Universal Music Group）、Concord 和 ABKCO 的多项诉讼，以及来自 BMG 和 Round Hill Music 的单独起诉。

In addition to suing Anthropic as an entity, the complaint names Co-Founders Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann as individual defendants. The suit alleges that Mann used BitTorrent to download over five million pirated books, and that employees downloaded at least two million more from Pirate Library Mirror. It also claims that Anthropic scraped lyrics from sites like MusixMatch and LyricFind, which paid to license content from the labels.

除了起诉 Anthropic 这一实体外，诉状还将联合创始人 Dario Amodei 和 Benjamin Mann 列为个人被告。诉讼指控 Mann 使用 BitTorrent 下载了超过 500 万本盗版书籍，且员工从“海盗图书馆镜像”（Pirate Library Mirror）下载了至少 200 万本。诉状还声称，Anthropic 从 MusixMatch 和 LyricFind 等网站抓取了歌词，而这些网站此前已向唱片公司支付了内容授权费用。

According to the filing: Plaintiff Music Publishers, a group of the world’s leading music publishers, bring this action to hold accountable the culprits behind one of the largest and most blatant ongoing thefts of intellectual property in history. Defendants Anthropic and its founders Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann have conducted a brazen campaign of illegally torrenting, scraping, and downloading copyrighted works on a massive scale in order to develop, operate, and reap enormous profits from Anthropic’s “Claude” series of artificial intelligence (“AI”) models.

根据诉状内容：原告音乐出版商（由全球领先的音乐出版商组成的团体）提起此诉讼，旨在追究历史上规模最大、最明目张胆的持续性知识产权盗窃案背后的罪魁祸首。被告 Anthropic 及其创始人 Dario Amodei 和 Benjamin Mann 开展了一场厚颜无耻的运动，大规模非法通过种子下载、抓取和下载受版权保护的作品，以开发、运营 Anthropic 的“Claude”系列人工智能（“AI”）模型并从中获取巨额利润。

Specific songs named as being found in Anthropic’s training data include Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell’s “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough,” Bon Jovi’s “Livin’ On a Prayer,” Earth, Wind & Fire’s “September,” Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah,” and Taylor Swift’s “Paper Rings.” Anthropic did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

诉状中列举了在 Anthropic 训练数据中发现的具体歌曲，包括 Marvin Gaye 和 Tammi Terrell 的《Ain’t No Mountain High Enough》、Bon Jovi 的《Livin’ On a Prayer》、Earth, Wind & Fire 的《September》、Leonard Cohen 的《Hallelujah》以及 Taylor Swift 的《Paper Rings》。Anthropic 未立即回应置评请求。