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Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment filed a second copyright lawsuit against Suno, alleging that it copied 60,202 sound recordings without licenses to build models behind its music-generation service. The complaint also targets the newer v6 models, arguing they inherit value from earlier allegedly infringing systems. The labels seek damages and an injunction; the allegations have not been decided by a court.
ElevenLabs released Music v2.5 as the new default model for prompted and reference generation in ElevenCreative. The company says the update produces richer melodies, more natural-sounding instruments and the biggest improvements in R&B, soul, hip hop, rock, metal, orchestral and cinematic music. Users can generate from written prompts or guide results with a reference track.
Universal Music Group and ElevenLabs signed an AI-music agreement, marking ElevenLabs' first deal with a major music company after earlier agreements with Kobalt and Merlin. The partnership adds another major rightsholder relationship to ElevenLabs' music efforts and extends UMG's recent work on AI remix experiences, but the candidate report does not describe a released product.
Roland has released Melody Flip, its first generative AI music tool, as a plug-in for digital audio workstations. Instead of producing a complete song from one prompt, it gives producers access to roughly 250 genre-based Palettes containing themed musical ideas. The launch brings a major music-technology company into AI-assisted composition while keeping the creator inside a conventional DAW workflow.
SOCAN sued Suno in the Federal Court of Canada, alleging that the platform generates and streams songs that copy works in its repertoire without permission or payment. The claim identifies 150 publicly available outputs and seeks damages and injunctions over alleged performing-rights infringement; it focuses on generated songs and their streaming, and the allegations have not been decided by a court.
Jason Isbell, David Lowery, Guy Forsyth, and Eduardo Calle filed a proposed class action alleging that Suno commercially exploits musicians' names, voices, and identifying traits. The complaint says entering an artist's name can produce a song, description, and image that evoke that person, and brings publicity-right and biometric-privacy claims rather than copyright claims. The allegations have not been decided by a court.
