Publishers allege Anthropic's "Project Panama" bought, scanned, and destroyed songbooks; discovery fight in Concord II
11 सित॰ 2026 · सार्वजनिक स्रोतों से स्वचालित रूप से एकत्र किया गया। किसी व्यक्ति द्वारा समीक्षित नहीं।
यह सामग्री केवल अपनी मूल भाषा (अंग्रेज़ी) में उपलब्ध है।
What happened
In Concord Music Group et al. v. Anthropic — the second Concord suit, filed January 2026 and covering more than 20,000 songs with over $3 billion sought — the publishers allege Anthropic ran an internal "Project Panama" program: bought print songbooks and sheet-music collections, tore off the bindings, scanned every page, stored the digitized files and destroyed the originals — all to amass "all the books in the world" (echoing Judge Alsup's June 2025 findings in Bartz v. Anthropic). In three-page discovery statements filed 11 September 2026, the publishers asked that the scanning claims join phase-one discovery alongside the torrenting claims; Anthropic argued they should wait for phase two and the Concord I fair-use ruling. Judge Eumi K. Lee had not ruled at the time of reporting. A motion-to-dismiss hearing on parts of Concord II is set for 4 November.
Why it may matter to you
If proven, systematic purchase-scan-destroy of physical books is a vivid new fact pattern for the training-data cases — distinct from the torrenting allegations.
What is not yet known
Whether the court admits the Panama claims into phase one; what the scanning program actually covered.
स्रोत
- Anthropic bought songbooks, scanned them and destroyed them, music publishers allege — Music Business Worldwide (secondary)