Anthropic settles high-profile class action lawsuit alleging copyright infringement

By Kyt Dotson for SiliconANGLE
Wednesday, August 27, 2025

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Although the settlement resolves this class-action, it does not clear the company of other pending copyright suits it’s embroiled in. Reddit recently brought suit against Anthropic, accusing it of unauthorized scraping to train its AI model, and Universal Music Group, among other music labels, also filed suit over song lyric infringement.

“Recent revelations about the massive and deliberate exploitation of pirated content for LLM training by largest AI vendors — are just the tip of the iceberg of the unexpectedly nasty and painful surprises, more are looming on the horizon,” Dr. Ilia Kolochenko, chief executive of ImmuniWeb SA and a practicing lawyer specializing in AI, data privacy and protection, told SiliconANGLE.

Anthropic is not the only AI company in legal crosshairs. Dozens of similar lawsuits have peppered the AI copyright infringement landscape with filings against the company’s competitors, including OpenAI, as well as Meta Platforms Inc. and the AI search engine Perplexity Inc. Infringement claims continue to roll in against AI developers from publishers, authors, media companies and music labels.

“The current business model of many AI companies (i.e., grab everyone’s intellectual property without paying, claim that you do this for the sustainable innovation and everyone’s well-being, and then make billions for founders and shareholders) may pretty soon become economically unviable,” added Kolochenko.

The response to widespread scraping by AI companies from rights-holders has been lawsuits, while platforms have opted to protect their content with technical barriers. For instance, Reddit blocked its content from the Internet Archive, companies use CloudFlare to stop AI bots and some artists use image poisoning techniques such as Nightshade. Read Full Article