Sony Music Leisure and Common Music Group (UMG) are suing AI music generator Suno for allegedly infringing on their copyright with its latest v6 fashions, Selection reviews. The declare challenges the story Suno has typically advised about its newest AI fashions, that are the primary it is launched since signing licensing offers with Warner Music Group and BMG.
Whereas Suno used licensed materials to create the v6 lineup, of their lawsuit (obtained by Music Enterprise Worldwide), Sony Music and UMG particularly take concern with the corporate’s public acknowledgement that the fashions had been additionally educated on “customers’ ‘interactions’ with Suno’s service,” which they take to imply “the outputs of, and choice indicators derived from, prior fashions that Suno constructed by copying Plaintiffs’ recordings with out authorization.” Beneath that understanding, each firms declare Suno could possibly be answerable for infringing on the copyright of no less than 60,202 sound recordings. That leaves it chargeable for as much as $9 billion in damages underneath US copyright regulation, plus as much as $2,500 for every time Suno circumvented YouTube’s anti-downloading tech to scrape songs, in line with MusicBusinessWorldwide.
Naturally, the corporate disagrees with Sony Music and UMG. “These claims stay essentially flawed on each the details and the regulation,” the corporate mentioned in an announcement to Engadget, whereas reaffirming that “Suno exists in order that extra individuals could make new music.”
“Over the previous two years, we have now doubled down on this aim, launching v6 in partnership with WMG, BMG, and Consider,” the corporate continued. “v6 was educated on content material licensed from our companions, interactions together with creations and choice indicators from our group, and the collected learnings from our group. We’re excited for a future the place AI and the music business proceed to strengthen each other and construct completely new product experiences for artists, followers and the broader music group.”
This new lawsuit builds on Sony Music, UMG and WMG’s earlier swimsuit in opposition to the corporate, and a July 2026 hack of Suno’s knowledge that exposed the AI firm scraped thousands and thousands of songs and lyrics from platforms like YouTube Music, Deezer and Genius to coach its earlier fashions. Prior to now, Suno has justified scraping music to coach AI as falling underneath the truthful use doctrine. Alongside the discharge of its v6 fashions, although, the corporate ended help for its older fashions, which no less than suggests it thinks providing a product educated on licensed materials is extra palatable to critics. If a decide is swayed by file firms’ understanding of how Suno educated its fashions, which may not be sufficient.
