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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.
A Massachusetts federal judge allowed three claims in an independent artists' proposed class action against Suno to proceed, including allegations that outputs are unauthorized derivative works and that Suno circumvented YouTube controls to obtain training data. The August 20 order dismissed only a mistakenly pleaded Tennessee consumer-protection count. The ruling permits discovery; it does not decide whether infringement or circumvention occurred.
Luminate introduced a framework that can flag AI-generated songs and artists worldwide in its CONNECT platform. The company says visible AI Generated labels will reach customers and partners later in 2026, with a review process for artists and labels to challenge incorrect tags. The rollout gives music businesses a new way to identify synthetic catalog content, though the labels are not yet visible in CONNECT.
Australia's ARIA updated its chart rules to make wholly AI-generated recordings ineligible while keeping substantially human-made, AI-assisted work eligible if it raises no stream or chart-manipulation concerns. The rules apply from the chart dated August 31, published August 28, and include a dispute process, giving artists and distributors a clearer test for chart and award eligibility.
