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Sony Music Publishing, Warner Chappell, and other major music publishers have sued Anthropic and its founders in California, alleging the company illegally scraped and used copyrighted song lyrics and music to train its Claude AI models. The lawsuit claims large-scale intellectual property theft and seeks substantial damages.[AI generated]
Why's our monitor labelling this an incident or hazard?
The event explicitly involves an AI system (Anthropic's AI models) whose development involved unauthorized use of copyrighted music, constituting a violation of intellectual property rights. This fits the definition of an AI Incident because the AI system's development and use directly led to a breach of legal obligations protecting intellectual property rights. The lawsuit and the described unauthorized training on copyrighted works confirm that harm has occurred. Therefore, the event is classified as an AI Incident.[AI generated]