Sony Music And UMG Say Suno's New Models Still Violates Their Copyright
In a new lawsuit, the labels argue Suno found a roundabout way to train its v6 models on unlicensed music.
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Sony Music Entertainment and Universal Music Group (UMG) are suing AI music generator Suno for allegedly infringing on their copyright with its newest v6 models, Variety reports. The claim challenges the story Suno has generally told about its latest AI models, which are the first it's released since signing licensing deals with Warner Music Group and BMG.
While Suno used licensed material to create the v6 lineup, in their lawsuit (obtained by Music Business Worldwide), Sony Music and UMG specifically take issue with the company's public acknowledgement that the models were also trained on "users' 'interactions' with Suno's service," which they take to mean "the outputs of, and preference signals derived from, prior models that Suno built by copying Plaintiffs' recordings without authorization." Under...
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