Sony Music, Universal Music Group, and Warner Records filed lawsuits in June 2024 alleging Suno and Udio trained music-generating AI systems on their copyrighted recordings without licensing, claiming 662 and 1,670 infringing songs respectively, and seeking up to $150,000 per song in statutory damages. This is the first major copyright action targeting music-generation AI, following similar disputes over text-model training data. The outcome will structurally determine whether music-generation AI models face licensing obligations and material training-data compliance costs comparable to those facing text-based model developers.
178 other tracked developments touching the same claims.