As news of Anthropic’s latest $10 billion funding round broke, with the company valued at $350 billion, Concord Music and a slew of other music publishers were finalizing their copyright lawsuit against Anthropic.
In a statement to Billboard, the plaintiffs say they are seeking more than $3 billion from Anthropic.
The complaint copies the Shadow Library Strategy successful by book authors against Anthropic in Bartz v. Anthropic. In fact, the Complaint cites and qutoes Bartz 16 times!
No question Concord Music plaintiffs want this lawsuit to turn into Bartz II.
In fact, two of the law firms representing Concord Music, Oppenheim + Zebrak and Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, were involved in representing the Bartz plaintiffs but not as Class Counsel approved by the court. Agreeing with Judge Alsup’s view, Judge Martinez-Olguin recently told these 2 law firms they are “working for free” and will receive no award of attorneys’ fees at all.
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