Publishers allege Anthropic's "Project Panama" bought, scanned, and destroyed songbooks; discovery fight in Concord II
11 set 2026 · Raccolto automaticamente da fonti pubbliche. Non revisionato da una persona.
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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.
Fonti
- Anthropic bought songbooks, scanned them and destroyed them, music publishers allege — Music Business Worldwide (secondary)