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Court orderSeptember 8, 2025Concord Music Group, Inc. v. Anthropic PBC (Concord I) · N.D. Cal. 5:24-cv-03811

Magistrate judge orders Anthropic to give music publishers the text and metadata of its LibGen and PiLiMi datasets and the unredacted Bartz briefs

In the music publishers' first suit against Anthropic, the two sides disputed whether Anthropic had to produce documents about its use of BitTorrent to acquire books containing the publishers' lyrics. Magistrate Judge van Keulen ordered Anthropic to produce, by Sept. 11, 2025, the unredacted class certification and summary judgment briefs from Bartz v. Anthropic, and the raw text, extracted text and metadata from the LibGen and PiLiMi datasets. Anthropic also had to serve a verified supplemental answer to one interrogatory. The judge deferred the publishers' broader request for all documents about Anthropic's consideration or use of BitTorrent until the district judge ruled on their pending motion to add torrenting claims to the case.

Order, Dkt. 431, Sept. 8, 2025 (CourtListener docket entry) ↗

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