Cette action judiciaire s'appuie sur le précédent du procès Bartz v. Anthropic, dans lequel le juge a condamné l'entreprise à 1,5 milliard de dollars pour acquisition illégale de contenus.
La justice américaine opère une séparation nette entre l'apprentissage automatique et la méthode d'acquisition des données. Si l'entraînement peut bénéficier du fair use, l'obtention de données via le piratage annule cette protection et expose les concepteurs de modèles à des pénalités financières majeures.
Déposée devant le tribunal fédéral du district nord de Californie, la plainte visent Anthropic ainsi que ses fondateurs Dario Amodei et Benjamin Mann. Les éditeurs musicaux affirment que l'entreprise a eu recours au torrenting et au scraping de masse pour récupérer des millions de livres, paroles et partitions. Anthropic réfute ces accusations et promet de se défendre fermement en justice.
Impact concret
Les directions juridiques et DSI doivent exiger une traçabilité rigoureuse des jeux de données d'entraînement auprès de leurs fournisseurs de LLM afin de parer tout risque de contrefaçon par ricochet.
Applications concrètes
Audit de la traçabilité des jeux de données d'entraînement, vérification juridique des pipelines de scraping Web, mise en place de registres de conformité pour les modèles propriétaires.
In Brief Posted: 11:41 AM PDT · August 29, 2026 Image Credits: Ruhani Kaur/Bloomberg / Getty Images Kirsten Korosec Sony Music, Warner sue Anthropic, alleging a “brazen campaign” of intellectual property theft Sony Music Publishing, Warner Chappell and numerous other music publishers have sued Anthropic and co-founders Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann, alleging the AI lab conducted a “brazen campaign of illegally torrenting, scraping, and downloading copyrighted works.” The lawsuit, which was filed late Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, was first reported by Music Business Worldwide . The publishers accuse Anthropic of “blatant theft” by using thousands of copyrighted works to train its AI model Claude. “We disagree with the publishers’ claims and we intend to defend ourselves robustly in court,” an Anthropic spokesperson wrote in an emailed statement sent to TechCrunch. This isn’t the first intellectual property lawsuit Anthropic has faced. Some of the same lawyers behind this lawsuit also represent Concord Music Group and Universal Music Group in a case filed in January and led the Bartz v. Anthropic case, in which a group of authors accused Anthropic of using copyrighted works to train products like Claude. Anthropic was ordered to pay $1.5 billion in the landmark Bartz case after a judge ruled that while it was legal for the AI lab to use copyrighted works, it was not legal to acquire that content through piracy. While the cases make similar arguments, there are key differences. This latest lawsuit is particularly broad and builds off the other cases, including by accusing Anthropic of “flagrant piracy” through illegal torrenting to obtain millions of copies of books, including those that contain lyrics and sheet music. Article was updated to include Anthropic’s comment. Topics AI , Anthropic October 13 – 15 San Francisco Don’t miss out . The startup community will gather to answer a pivotal question: How do you build sustainably in the AI era? REGISTER NOW Newsletters See More Subscribe for the industry’s biggest tech news TechCrunch Daily News Every weekday and Sunday, you can get the best of TechCrunch’s coverage. TechCrunch Mobility TechCrunch Mobility is your destination for transportation news and insight. Startups Weekly Startups are the core of TechCrunch, so get our best coverage delivered weekly. StrictlyVC Provides movers and shakers with the info they need to start their day. No newsletters selected. Subscribe By submitting your email, you agree to our Terms and Privacy Notice . Related Robotics The U.S. is building barriers around drones and robots, but China has scale to get around them Kate Park 1 hour ago Apps Grindr wants to be the everything app for gay men; investors are still deciding whether it can pull it off Connie Loizos 2 hours ago Transportation Liux’s Big microcar bets on sustainability to take on Chinese rivals Anna Heim 9 hours ago Latest in AI Robotics The U.S. is building barriers around drones and robots, but China has scale to get around them Kate Park 1 hour ago AI Musk’s faster path to more gas turbines comes with pollution problem Connie Loizos 11 hours ago AI Caterpillar is bringing to AI deployment what it learned from automating mining Kate Park 13 hours ago