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  • Round Hill Files $1B Copyright Infringement Lawsuits Against Anthropic and Suno

    Independent music rights administrator Round Hill Music has filed twin copyright infringement lawsuits against generative AI music platform Suno and frontier foundation model developer Anthropic. The complaints, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, allege that both companies unlawfully scraped, ingested, and reproduced copyrighted musical compositions without licenses, authorization, or compensation to build and train their commercial AI models. Round Hill M

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  • Anthropic bought rare books, sliced off their spines, and shredded the originals to train Claude

    Court documents from the settled copyright lawsuit against Anthropic reveal that the company purchased physical books in bulk, used hydraulic cutting machines to remove their spines, scanned the pages with industrial equipment, and then destroyed the original copies. The practice, internally called Project Panama, targeted rare and out-of-print titles, including editions with few surviving copies. What the documents show According to reporting by Futurism and 404 Media, Anthropic hired Tom Tu

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  • Anthropic trained Claude on 10 editions of a music industry bible. The author got $5,000.

    Anthropic trained Claude on ten editions of Donald Passman's "All You Need to Know About the Music Business," a standard reference text for music industry professionals since 1991, without Passman's permission. A federal judge has now ruled that Passman cannot opt out of the $1.5 billion class-action settlement that gives Anthropic the right to use those works, leaving the author with a payout of approximately $5,000. The settlement, approved by U.S. District Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin, reso

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  • Judge approves 1.5 billion Anthropic settlement over pirated training books

    A federal judge has approved a 1.5 billion dollar copyright settlement between Anthropic and thousands of authors whose pirated books were used to train the Claude chatbot. The ruling makes it the largest known copyright recovery in history. District Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin approved the class-action settlement on July 21, 2026, finding it provides meaningful relief to affected authors and publishers. The settlement covers more than 482,000 books, with approximately 91 percent claimed by a

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