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BMG Rights Management (US) LLC v. Anthropic PBC

Summary

BMG Rights Management (US) LLC v. Anthropic PBC, No. 5:26-cv-02334 (N.D. Cal.), is a music-publisher copyright action filed March 17, 2026. BMG alleges that Anthropic copied BMG compositions as training inputs and outputs of Claude, torrented some works from pirate libraries, and removed or altered copyright management information. The complaint is allegations only and identifies Concord I and Concord II as related actions against the same defendant.

Verified Facts

  • On March 17, 2026, BMG Rights Management (US) LLC filed a complaint in the Northern District of California, San Jose Division, No. 5:26-cv-02334, against Anthropic PBC, demanding a jury trial.1
  • The complaint pleads, among other claims, copyright infringement in training and output, direct copyright infringement by torrenting, and removal or alteration of copyright management information.1
  • BMG alleges that the action concerns substantially the same defendant, property, and events as Concord Music Group, Inc. v. Anthropic PBC, No. 5:24-cv-03811 (Concord I) and No. 5:26-cv-00880 (Concord II), and states that it anticipated an administrative motion to relate the cases under Civil Local Rule 3-12.1

Historical Context

BMG is a third U.S. publisher catalog in the Northern District of California lyric-and-piracy cluster, after Concord/UMG/ABKCO and the later Sony/Warner publishers. It is a composition case, not a sound-recording case against a music generator.

Jurisdiction: Northern District of California. Authority level: complaint only. No source cited here decides § 107 or personal liability of Anthropic founders; unlike Concord II and Sony/Warner, this caption names Anthropic PBC alone.1

Relationships

  • CASE-BMG-V-ANTHROPIC cites SRC-BMG-V-ANTHROPIC-COMPLAINT.
  • CASE-BMG-V-ANTHROPIC related_to CASE-CONCORD-V-ANTHROPIC.
  • CASE-BMG-V-ANTHROPIC related_to TOPIC-AI-MUSIC-COPYRIGHT.

Sources

  1. SRC-BMG-V-ANTHROPIC-COMPLAINT: BMG complaint (Mar. 17, 2026).

Research Debt

  • Add any related-case order, motion to dismiss, or answer from those PDFs.
  • Add Exhibit A/B work lists only if OIR needs the asserted-work count from the exhibits themselves.

Document metadata

  • Filing date: 2026-03-17
  • Last verified: 2026-09-02

  1. SRC-BMG-V-ANTHROPIC-COMPLAINT — Complaint (Mar. 17, 2026). Primary for parties, docket number, claims, and related-case allegations. ↩↩↩↩