Universal and Sony File Another Copyright Lawsuit Against Suno

Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment have filed a second copyright lawsuit against Suno, escalating their fight with the generative AI music platform after releasing its beleaguered v6 model.Filed in the U.S.

District Court for the District of Massachusetts, the complaint alleges Suno copied 60,202 sound recordings owned by the major labels and used them without permission to develop its AI-powered music generation technology.The platform allows users to generate full songs by entering simple text prompts.

The filing continues an ongoing dispute since 2024, when UMG, Sony and Warner sued Suno over its training practices.Warner later settled and struck a licensing agreement with Suno while UMG and Sony remained in litigation.

The plaintiffs are seeking statutory damages and an injunction.If a court found willful infringement and awarded the maximum of $150,000 per work, damages could theoretically exceed $9 billion.

The new front in the litigation between the firms focuses on v6, which Suno launched in early September through partnerships with Warner Music Group, BMG and Believe.Suno Chief Product Officer Jack Brody told Music Business Worldwide that v6 was trained “entirely from scratch” on different data and without UMG or Sony recordings.

The major labels dispute the claim as the complaint alleges Suno trained the model using accumulated knowledge from earlier models that the labels say were trained on copyrighted recordings without authorization.They argue that this lineage carries the alleged infringement into v6.

Suno has rejected the allegations, saying the complaint is “fundamentally flawed on both the facts and the law.” Scroll to continue more from edm “Perfect Slop Machine”: Suno’s Own Users Are Revolting Against Its New AI Model “What remains unchanged is that Suno exists so that more people can make new music,” a spokersperson said in a statement.“Every song on Suno beg...