Shakespeare v. Anthropic PBC
Summary
Authors and publishers sue Anthropic for training AI models on copyrighted books without permission.
Summary generated by AI from public docket data. Verify against the original filing before relying on it.
Coverage vs reality meter
Prior 22P · 6D · 5N→Recent 30d 8P · 0D · 0N
Press coverage leans plaintiff-favorable; no court ruling has been classified yet.
Coverage breakdown — the headlines behind the meter
30 plaintiff-favorable · 6 defendant-favorable · 5 neutral
- Sony Music and Warner Chappell Music sue Anthropic; lawsuit that names Dario Amodei accuse Anthropic of 'The Times of India · 2026-08-31
- Sony Music, Warner Chappell sue Anthropic over copyright infringementBusiness Standard · 2026-08-31
- Anthropic Sued Over Copyrighted Music Used to Train ClaudeInternational Business Times, Singapore Edition · 2026-08-30
- Sony and Warner sue Anthropic over "one of the largest and most blatant ongoing thefts of intellectual property in history" - the-decoder.comthe-decoder.com · 2026-08-30
- US judge approves Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement of copyright lawsuitReuters · 2026-07-21
- Anthropic gets court approval for $1.5 billion AI copyright lawsuit settlementMoneycontrol.com · 2026-07-21
- Anthropic settles $2B copyright lawsuit over AI training dataCrypto Briefing · 2026-07-21
- A federal judge just approved Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement with authorsStartup Fortune · 2026-07-21
Coverage sentiment vs. docket activity over time
Counsel of record
- Doniger / BurroughsAndres Navarro
- Doniger / Burroughs APCBenjamin F. Tookey
- Doniger BurroughsStephen Michael Doniger
- Duncan Firm, PAJames Henry Bartolomei , III
- Gafni & Levin LLPAdam Irving Gafni
- Kaufman & Kahn, LLPMark S Kaufman
- Law Offices of Michael P. ManapolMichael P. Manapol
- Court
- U.S. District Court, Northern District of California
- Docket no.
- 3:26-cv-05931
- Nature of suit
- Copyright
- Judge
- P. Casey Pitts
- Filed
- 2026-06-17
- Last filing
- 2026-08-28
Cause
17:101 Copyright Infringement
Entities in this case
Parties
Benjamin Mann Dario Amodei Anthropic PBC Kirk Zurosky Rebecca Zanetti David Young Florence Williams Ben Westhoff Patrice Washington Lemuel (Boo) Walker Lisa Turner Brenda L. Thomas Natalia Sylvester Kiki Swinson Empellon Holdings LLC Alex Stupak Jordana Rothman Gene Stone Jesse Stay DeForest B. Soaries, Jr.
Docket entries
- #242026-07-07
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- 2026-07-07
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- 2026-07-07
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- #232026-07-02
Judicial Referral for Purpose of Determining Relationship of Cases re 25-cv-10897-PCP and 26-cv-5931-EKL. Signed by Judge Eumi K. Lee on 7/2/2026. (lrt, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 7/2/2026)
- #222026-06-30
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- #212026-06-30
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- #202026-06-30
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- #192026-06-25
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- #172026-06-23
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- #142026-06-23
CONSENT/DECLINATION to Proceed Before a US Magistrate Judge by Tiffany Aliche, Bert Bates, Vince Beiser, Clara Bingham, Susan Bliler, Barbara Marie Bonneau, Cylin Busby, Busby Ross Inc., Nolan Bushnell, Stephen J. Caldas, Anne Canadeo, Scott Carney, Jordi Castells, Wahida Clark, Suzanne Cope, Carey Corp, Julie Cross, Ron Currie, Jr, Victoria David, Marcy Dermansky, Jim DiEugenio, Jamie Dutcher, Jim Dutcher, Ginny Dye, Mara Einstein, Empellon Holdings LLC, Jane Esselstyn, Rip Esselstyn, Ben L. Evridge, Karen Siff Exkorn, Nir Eyal, Jon Fine, Isabelle Gallo, Stanley Ginsberg, Charles Glass, Reyna Gobel, David Goodman, Matt Gross, Thomas Guzman-Sanchez, Minal Hajratwala, Brenda Hampton, Donna Barba Higuera, Human Resource Development Press Inc., Buzzy Jackson, Nick Jamilla, K. W. Jeter, Matthew Kenney, Pamela Keogh, Lynnette Khalfani-Cox, Joe Konrath, Margaret Ratner Kunstler, as Executrix of the Estate of William Moses Kunstler, Melissa Landers, Marie Myung-Ok Lee, John Leland, Barron Lerner, Ariel MacArran, Maggie Macnab, Debra Berndt Maldonado, Erin Siegal McIntyre, Karen McQuestion, Glen Merzer, Lorie Moeggenberg, Lindsay S. Nixon, Hannah Nordhaus, Kate O'Hearn, Randal Pinkett, Matteo Pistono, Pamela Popper, Bruce Ratner, as Executor of the Estate of Michael Ratner, Andrew Revkin, Christopher Ricci, Sarah Elizabeth Richards, Rose Books, Inc., Jordana Rothman, Julian Rubinstein, Danny Rust, Allen Salkin, Danielle Santiago-Cofield, Sarah Edmondson Inc., Thomas William Shakespeare, Kathy Sierra, Zachary Sklar, DeForest B. Soaries, Jr, Jesse Stay, Gene Stone, Alex Stupak, Kiki Swinson, Natalia Sylvester, J. Randy Taraborrelli, Brenda L. Thomas, Lisa Turner, Wahida Clark Presents Publishing LLC, Lemuel (Boo) Walker, Patrice Washington, Ben Westhoff, Florence Williams, David Young, Rebecca Zanetti, Kirk Zurosky.. (Doniger, Stephen) (Filed on 6/23/2026) (Entered: 06/23/2026)
- 2026-06-23
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- 2026-06-23
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- 2026-06-18
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- 2026-06-17
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- 2026-06-17
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- 2026-06-17
Remark: Report 3 emailed to Copyright Office. (msr, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 6/17/2026)
Docket history from CourtListener/RECAP — most recent first.