Sony Music、Warner 起诉 Anthropic，指控其开展“肆无忌惮”的知识产权盗窃活动

英文标题：Sony Music, Warner sue Anthropic, alleging a “brazen campaign” of intellectual property theft

Sony Music Publishing、Warner Chappell 等多家音乐出版商起诉 Anthropic 及其联合创始人 Dario Amodei、Benjamin Mann，指控该公司通过 BT 下载、抓取和下载方式非法获取受版权保护作品。原告称 Anthropic 使用数千部版权作品训练 Claude，构成“明目张胆的盗窃”。这起诉讼的范围尤为广泛，进一步指控 Anthropic 通过非法种子下载获取了数百万本书籍，其中包括含有歌词和乐谱的作品。案件延续了 AI 训练数据版权争议，并将再次考验开发者和 AI 公司在获取训练数据时对版权合规与数据来源合法性的要求。

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Sony Music Publishing、Warner Chappell 以及众多其他音乐出版商已起诉 Anthropic 及其联合创始人 Dario Amodei 和 Benjamin Mann，指控这家 AI 实验室开展了一场“肆无忌惮地通过非法种子下载、抓取和下载受版权保护作品的活动”。

该诉讼于周五晚间提交至美国加利福尼亚北区联邦地区法院，最先由 Music Business Worldwide 报道。出版商指控 Anthropic 利用数千部受版权保护的作品训练其 AI 模型 Claude，构成“明目张胆的盗窃”。

Anthropic 一名发言人在通过电子邮件发送给 TechCrunch 的声明中写道：“我们不同意出版商的主张，并打算在法庭上积极为自己辩护。”

这并非 Anthropic 首次面临知识产权诉讼。本案背后的部分相同律师，还代理了 Concord Music Group 和 Universal Music Group 于今年 1 月提起的一起案件，并曾主导 Bartz v. Anthropic 案；在该案中，一群作者指控 Anthropic 利用受版权保护作品训练 Claude 等产品。在具有里程碑意义的 Bartz 案中，一名法官裁定，AI 实验室使用受版权保护作品本身是合法的，但通过盗版方式获取这些内容则不合法，因此 Anthropic 被要求支付 15 亿美元。

尽管这些案件提出了相似的论点，但也存在关键差异。最新这起诉讼的覆盖范围尤为广泛，并在其他案件基础上进一步指控 Anthropic 通过非法种子下载实施“公然盗版”，以获取数百万本书籍的副本，其中包括含有歌词和乐谱的书籍。

本文已更新，加入 Anthropic 的回应。

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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.”

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.

“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.

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. 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.

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.

Article was updated to include Anthropic’s comment.