Sony Music Entertainment files new lawsuit against AI startup Udio

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Set us as preferred Sony Music Entertainment on Monday filed a new lawsuit against AI startup Udio, alleging it infringed on more than 30,000 recordings.Sony said Udio ripped off music recordings from YouTube without Sony’s permission to train AI models.Users on Udio can type prompts describing the type of song they wish to create.

Sony says Udio’s platform is capable of producing audio similar to copyrighted recordings.“Since the day it launched, Udio has flouted the rights of copyright owners in the music industry as part of a mad dash to become the dominant AI music generation service,” Sony said in its lawsuit.

“Neither Udio, nor any other generative AI company, can be allowed to advance toward this goal by trampling the rights of copyright owners.”The new lawsuit increases the number of copyrighted recordings Sony is accusing Udio of infringing.The company said suchworks include music by artists like Alicia Keys, Dolly Parton and Elvis Presley.

Sony in 2024 had sued Udio, alongside other businesses including Warner Music Group and Universal Music Group.Since then, Warner Music Group and Universal Music Group have made deals with Udio to license their music, with artists choosing whether to opt in.

Hollywood Inc.Universal Music Group reached a settlement with AI startup Udio, ending a legal battle in which UMG had accused Udio of taking copyrighted music to train its AI model.“As observed in the intervening time since Plaintiffs initiated the original lawsuit against Udio, when those who develop such a service steal copyrighted sound recordings, the service’s synthetic musical outputs inevitably saturate the market with machine-generated content that will compete with, cheapen, and ultimately drown out the genuine sound recordings on which the service is built,” Sony said in its lawsuit.

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