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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.
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.
Udio filed an answer to Sony Music's separate lawsuit over 30,117 sound recordings, arguing that any protected copying used to train its generative model was fair use. It also says that, if infringement is found, it was innocent and statutory damages could fall to $200 per work. Udio acknowledged obtaining some YouTube audio with YT-DLP but did not admit training on Sony's listed recordings.
Regional Mexican label and publisher Gerencia 360 sued Suno and Bright Data, alleging unauthorized use of 444 registered works and DMCA violations involving 1,174 works. The complaint says Suno scraped recordings and lyrics from services including YouTube, Deezer, and Genius with Bright Data infrastructure. It seeks damages from both companies, but the allegations have not been decided by a court.
UMG and Sony amended their Massachusetts copyright complaint against Suno after a judge allowed a DMCA claim alleging that the company bypassed YouTube's rolling cipher to obtain training recordings. The judge separately refused to add 61,026 recordings to the 560 already at issue, citing complexity and delay. Both the allegations and Suno's fair-use defense remain unresolved as the case moves toward summary judgment.
