“Zlibrary my beloved”: Anthropic staff chats extolling piracy cited in Sony suit
by Ashley Belanger from Ars Technica - All content on (#782NY)
Some of the world's leading music publishers think that Anthropic got off too light in a historic settlement where the Claude maker paid authors $1.5 billion after admitting to pirating more than 7 million books to train AI.
$1.5 billion is obviously not a large enough settlement to deter infringing conduct by a company that has parlayed such mass infringement into a staggering $2-trillion-dollar valuation," music publishers said in a lawsuit filed Friday.
Music publishers suing Anthropic include Sony, EMI, and Warner Chappell. They alleged that Anthropic's illegal torrenting also included thousands upon thousands" of their copyrighted musical compositions.