Concord Music Group, Inc. v. Anthropic PBC
Summary
Concord Music Group sues Anthropic for copyright infringement, alleging the AI company used its songs to train AI models.
Summary generated by AI from public docket data. Verify against the original filing before relying on it.
Coverage vs reality meter
Prior 73P · 30D · 29N→Recent 30d 20P · 0D · 2N
Press coverage leans plaintiff-favorable; no court ruling has been classified yet.
Coverage breakdown — the headlines behind the meter
93 plaintiff-favorable · 30 defendant-favorable · 31 neutral
- Anthropic sued over alleged theft of ‘tens of thousands’ of songsThe Guardian · 2026-08-31
- Sony Music and Warner Chappell Music sue Anthropic; lawsuit that names Dario Amodei accuse Anthropic of 'The Times of India · 2026-08-31
- Major Music Publishers Target Anthropic in Copyright Infringement Lawsuit Over Claude AI TrainingBlockonomi · 2026-08-31
- Sony and Warner have jointly sued Anthropic, alleging that their music was used in Claude's training, calling it 'the biggest and most egregious intellectual property theft case in history.'GIGAZINE · 2026-08-31
- Anthropic raises $65B in Series H funding, valuing the AI giant at $965BMusic Business Worldwide · 2026-06-01
- Anthropic Beats Vicarious Liability Claim in Music Publishers SuitDigital Music News · 2026-05-28
- Anthropic Seeks Court Victory in AI Copyright Dispute Over Song LyricsPYMNTS.com · 2026-04-22
- Anthropic Claims Fair Use in Push to End Music Publishers LawsuitDigital Music News · 2026-04-22
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Counsel of record
- Electronic Frontier FoundationCorynne McSherry, Mitchell Leff Stoltz, Victoria Jane Noble
- Constantine Cannon LLPDan Noel, Seth Greenstein
- Pryor Cashman LLPBenjamin S. Akley, Nathaniel Hunter Kazlow
- Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLPDisha R. Patel, Jared Vasconcellos Grubow
- Oppenheim & Zebrak, LLPAlexander Kaplan, Jeffrey M Gould
- Oppenheim & Zebrak LLPCorey Miller
- Oppenheim and Zebrak, LLPKeith T. Howell
- Schaerr Jaffe LLPDonald Falk
- Business Litigation Group PCJacqueline Charlesworth
- Independent counselPaul Nicholas Harold
- CooleyStephanie Lin
- Latham & Watkins LLPAndrew Michael Gass
- Manatt, Phelps & PhillipsRobert Allan Jacobs
- Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLPNathaniel L Bach
- Court
- U.S. District Court, Northern District of California
- Docket no.
- 5:24-cv-03811
- Nature of suit
- Copyright
- Judge
- Eumi K. Lee
- Filed
- 2024-06-26
- Last filing
- 2026-08-28
Cause
17:101 Copyright Infringement
Entities in this case
Parties
A.I. Progress, Inc. Computer & Communications Industry Association Electronic Frontier Foundation Engine Advocacy Copyright Law Professors BMG Rights Management (US) LLC Authors Guild International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers SoundExchange, Inc. Kirk Wallace Johnson Charles Graeber Andrea Bartz Music Artists Coalition American Association of Independent Music Artist Rights Alliance Black Music Action Coalition Songwriter of North America News/Media Alliance Association of American Publishers, Inc. National Music Publishers Association
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- 2026-03-26
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- 2024-11-19
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Docket history from CourtListener/RECAP — most recent first.