Anthropic has 'come to copyright' epiphany after Claude code leak

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From Australian tech mag Startup Daily:

https://www.startupdaily.net/advice/opinion/anthropic-has-come-to-copyright-epiphany-after-claude-code-leak/

Irony passed away quietly this week while Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei was in Australia lecturing local politicians on the importance of trust and safety in the artificial intelligence age.

The source code for Anthropic’s AI chatbot, Claude, leaked.

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Anthropic’s response was a “come to copyright” moment. The company began issuing takedown notices to GitHub, using the Clinton era Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).

“We issued a DMCA takedown against one repository hosting leaked Claude Code source code and its forks,” the company said.

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Typical. The AI CEOs who think they're entitled to steal everyone else's intellectual property want their own protected.

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1. Thanks for this post. I'm not sure everyone here will automatically recognize the irony

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These AI MFers steal EVERYTHING. There is literally NOTHING in the large language models that has not been stolen. The only real difference between ChatGPT, Claude and all the rest is WHERE they decided to steal from. When they say "training data", they are talking about data they have scraped from any and all sites and never paid anybody a penny for it. At least in Musk's case, much of that came from Twitter, which he bought.

And the generative AI is the same thing. When Suno generates songs, all the rhythms, instrument sounds, jyrics, and voice timbre comes from the talents or IP of artists, again without paying a penny in compensation.

So fuck all these bastards. I hope they all steal everything from each other and they all go bust.

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2. You're very welcome, and thanks for the reply! Yes, the AI companies stole the world's intellectual property

to train their AI models. And they're continuing to steal, every day.

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3. From Futurism: Anthropic Suddenly Cares Intensely About Intellectual Property

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-suddenly-cares-about-intellectual-property-claude-leak

Rules For Thee
Anthropic Suddenly Cares Intensely About Intellectual Property After Realizing With Horror That It Accidentally Leaked Claude’s Source Code
That's rich.

By Frank Landymore
Published Apr 3, 2026 8:39 AM EDT

The AI industry largely acts as if it’s above lowly copyright laws — unless, of course, those laws happen to be protecting its own interests.

As the Wall Street Journal reports, Anthropic is scrambling to contain a leak of its Claude Code AI model’s source code by issuing a copyright takedown request for more than 8,000 copies of it — a gallingly ironic stance for the company to be taking, considering how it trained its models in the first place.

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Back when Anthropic was still a nascent splinter group formed from former OpenAI researchers, for instance, it needed access to a wealth of high quality training data to build its Claude AI model.

To do that, it first relied on digital books. But it didn’t pay for them or choose only to use ones in the public domain. Instead, it downloaded millions of pirated volumes from the online “shadow library” LibGen. While LibGen doesn’t position itself as a pirate website, Anthropic also downloaded books from a similar hub literally called “Pirate Library Mirror.” (Anthropic cofounder Ben Mann was ebullient about the site’s launch: “just in time!!!” he wrote in a message to employees, along with a link to the site.)

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4. And how much of Anthropic's "AI source code" was stolen from OpenAI