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AllegationAugust 17, 2026Round Hill Music LP v. Anthropic PBC · N.D. Cal. 5:26-cv-08505

Round Hill Music sues Anthropic, alleging the books it torrented from LibGen included hundreds containing Round Hill's lyrics and compositions

Round Hill Music, an independent music publisher and label, and its affiliated funds sued Anthropic over the lyrics and compositions in its catalog, attaching a list of 500 works as a representative sample. Citing the findings in Bartz v. Anthropic, the complaint alleges Anthropic used BitTorrent to copy Library Genesis and then the Pirate Library Mirror, and that the millions of books it downloaded include "hundreds or more" that contain Round Hill's songs. It alleges those works are kept in an internal all-purpose repository and that keeping them is infringement separate from any training use. It also alleges copying through web scraping and YouTube-derived data, and that Claude reproduces its lyrics. The claims are direct copyright infringement, circumvention of access controls, and removal of copyright management information. Round Hill seeks up to $150,000 per work, which it says could approach or exceed $1 billion. These are allegations.

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