Universal Music Group, Concord and several other prominent music publishers filed a federal copyright infringement lawsuit against Anthropic, alleging the AI company utilized “pirate libraries” of music to train its chatbot. In documents obtained and viewed by TheWrap, the coalition made up of major music publishers — including Capitol Music Group and ABKCO — accused Anthropic of willful copyright infringement by allegedly “torrenting an enormous number of unauthorized copies of Publishers’ works from illegal shadow libraries to avoid paying for those works.”“Defendants unlawfully torrented Publishers’ works to amass a vast central library of written texts Anthropic would maintain forever,” the suit continued. “To the extent Defendants now try to absolve themselves of liability for this blatant theft by claiming that Anthropic later used some subset of these stolen works for AI training, any such claimed use is irrelevant (and would not in any case qualify as fair use). Anthropic did not immediately respond to TheWrap’s request for comment, but the company has previously denied the copyright infringement allegations. The post Universal Music Group, Concord and More Sue Anthropic Over Alleged Piracy, With Potential $3 Billion in Damages appeared first on TheWrap.