# Music Publishers Accuse Anthropic CEO of Approving Pirated Training Data

- slug: music-publishers-accuse-anthropic-ceo-of-approving-pirated-training-data
- date: 2026-03-24
- category: Artificial Intelligence

BMG Rights Management has filed a copyright lawsuit against Anthropic in California federal court, alleging the AI company used pirated copies of songs by the Rolling Stones, Bruno Mars, Ariana Grande, and other artists to train its Claude chatbot, and that Chief Executive Dario Amodei personally...

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