US Record Labels Sue AI Music Generators Suno and Udio for Copyright Infringement
The music industry has officially declared war on Suno and Udio, two of the most prominent AI music generators. A group of music labels including Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, and Sony Music Group has filed lawsuits in US federal court on Monday morning alleging copyright infringement on a “massive scale.”
The plaintiffs seek damages up to $150,000 per work infringed. The lawsuit against Suno is filed in Massachusetts, while the case against Udio’s parent company Uncharted Inc. was filed in New York. Suno and Udio did not immediately respond to a request to comment.
“Unlicensed services like Suno and Udio that claim it’s ‘fair’ to copy an artist’s life’s work and exploit it for their own profit without consent or pay set back the promise of genuinely innovative AI for us all,” Recording Industry Association of America chair and CEO Mitch Glazier said in a press release.
Music copyright is such a shitshow. It doesn't surprise that they would try this.
Edit: I just heard the generated songs that are part of the lawsuit. They're pretty fucked if this is true,
Links maybe?
https://suno.com/song/16df3d1e-f817-4904-b9a8-eb6b18b6583d
https://suno.com/song/a9575656-5922-44fe-a925-b7582af7f8e4
https://suno.com/song/3b1f21b8-c56f-43fd-a858-6d70f0314b67
https://suno.com/song/a5d096df-98f7-4ba8-993b-b1696134e4c3
https://suno.com/song/b13bc2e2-5468-4b5c-b17f-44d23bdf9340
From this article
Edit: there’s even more examples in this article
I feel bad for Suno's lawyer.
…oh my GOD, they are cooked.
Goodness gracious they must have great balls of fire to have done this.
But what if it was trained on covers?
Jesus Christ. Have people never heard of covers? Every song here is in some way or another akin to a published cover of another song. Pretty bad ones at that. Obviously if it were matching the songs one for one, then it would be considered copywrite enforceable but realistically these would be more along the lines of copywrite abuse. The music labels would absolutely love for this precedent to be set so that anything even that remotely resembles anything ever made will allow them to own new independent artists within established genres.
The cases
Here is a list of cases that set precedent. The thing that connects them all and makes them relevant is that the defendant was either successful, made a lot of money, was very popular or it was the label attacking a artist for sounding like themself after leaving the band. See John Fogerty v. John Fogerty
Actually technically covers require royalties, whether they're on a CD, or performed at someplace seedy.
They're not the time honored tradition you think they are.
Did those people just put the lyrics in? I've used udio a bunch, but not suno, but I just did it here and I and to generate the lyrics first. I could have put anything i want in there.
But even with that, at least the maria Carey one is really bad.
Here's one. Did they overfit their model and think they could block the bad prompts?
Seems that way