Sony sues Anthropic, citing staff chats calling piracy library 'Zlibrary my beloved'

Sony 等音乐出版商起诉 Anthropic，引用员工赞美盗版图书馆的内部聊天

Sony and other music publishers cited internal Anthropic chats in their lawsuit, where one employee called the pirate e-book site Z-Library 'my beloved.' The plaintiffs allege Anthropic torrented massive amounts of pirated lyrics and sheet music to train models, and that AI-generated songs have since charted, directly undercutting songwriters' revenue. The complaint also notes internal discussions about the legal risks of training on pirated music data, which were overridden.

Why it matters: Sony and publishers are suing Anthropic over pirated training data, with internal chats cited as evidence—specific claims, clear paper trail. This is the next major training-data copyright suit after NYT v. OpenAI, directly affecting compliance boundaries. Score isn't higher b...