Can You Use AI-Generated Music in a Film Commercially? What I Learned Scoring Lost Garden
A beginner’s guide to using Suno, Udio and other AI music tools in a commercial film without getting blindsided by a copyright gap nobody mentions on the pricing page.
I almost sent Lost Garden into a festival submission with a fully AI-generated score, because it sounded finished. It wasn’t the sound that stopped me. It was a single line in a festival’s submission checklist asking for proof of music rights.
Yes, you can legally use AI-generated music from a paid Suno or Udio account in a commercial film in 2026, but you will not own the copyright to it, and that gap is exactly what stops a distributor, insurer, or festival cold. A commercial license from the platform and a copyright are two different things, and most filmmakers only learn the difference after they’ve already locked picture to the track.
This is the part nobody puts in the demo video....
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