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Canadian singer, songwriter and poet (1934–2016)

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  • Aug 29

    Sony and Warner Music sue Anthropic over AI training on 20,000 copyrighted songs

    Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music have filed a federal lawsuit against Anthropic in California, seeking up to $150,000 per infringed song for allegedly using copyrighted lyrics and sheet music to train its Claude models.

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