Sony Music sues AI companies for allegedly scraping its catalogue without permission

Sony Music has filed a wave of lawsuits against AI companies, accusing them of illegally using tracks from its catalogue to train AI models without permission or payment. The move is part of a broader conflict between the music industry and AI developers over copyright. The financial claims involved are substantial.

More on this topic

💻 Technology Sony Music sues Udio again, alleging AI trained on 30,000 copyrighted songs Variety · 1d ago 💻 Technology Three publishers sue Google over AI copyright infringement in training data Engadget · 8d ago 💻 Technology ChatGPT nearly killed a pastor with dangerous pulmonary embolism advice Engadget · 1d ago 💻 Technology Major Publishers Consider Blocking Search Indexing to Escape Google's AI Answers Gizmodo · 1d ago 💻 Technology Anthropic settles for $1.5B over pirated books used to train Claude AI Hacker News · 2d ago 💻 Technology Anthropic's $1.5bn copyright settlement approved; authors get ~$3,000 per work Ars Technica · 2d ago

More on this topic

💻 Technology Sony Music sues Udio again, alleging AI trained on 30,000 copyrighted songs Variety · 1d ago 💻 Technology Three publishers sue Google over AI copyright infringement in training data Engadget · 8d ago 💻 Technology ChatGPT nearly killed a pastor with dangerous pulmonary embolism advice Engadget · 1d ago