Sony Music 和 Warner Chappell 起诉 Anthropic

Sony Music 和 Warner Chappell 已在美国加州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赔偿。两家公司要求针对每部作品最高赔偿 15 万美元，并针对每次移除可识别版权信息的行为最高赔偿 2.5 万美元。如果法院作出有利于 Sony 和 Warner 的裁决并判处最高赔偿额，赔偿总额可能达到数十亿美元。

这只是针对 Anthropic 的最新一起备受关注的诉讼。Anthropic 最近已就出版行业提起的诉讼达成和解，和解金额为15 亿美元。该公司还曾面临来自 Universal Music Group、Concord 和 ABKCO 的多起诉讼案件，此外还面临来自 BMG 和 Round Hill Music 的独立诉讼。

除起诉 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。诉讼指称，Mann 曾通过 BitTorrent 下载逾 500 万本盗版图书，并称员工还从 Pirate Library Mirror 下载了至少 200 万本图书。诉讼还称，Anthropic 从 MusixMatch 和 LyricFind 等网站抓取歌词，而这些网站曾付费向唱片公司获得内容授权。

原告音乐出版商——由全球领先音乐出版商组成的群体——提起本案，旨在追究这场历史上规模最大、行为最肆无忌惮且仍在持续的知识产权盗窃行为幕后责任人的责任。被告 Anthropic 及其创始人 Dario Amodei 和 Benjamin Mann 开展了一场肆无忌惮的行动，以大规模非法 BT 下载、网络抓取和下载受版权保护作品的方式，开发、运营并从 Anthropic 的“Claude”系列人工智能（“AI”）模型中获取巨额利润。

诉讼称，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》。截至发稿，Antrhopic 尚未立即回应置评请求。

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” 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.

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.

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.

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.

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 TaylorSwift’s “Paper Rings.” Antrhopic did not immediately respond to a request for comment.