Record Labels Unite to Sue AI Music Generation Companies Suno and Udio for Copyright Infringement

Several renowned record companies have jointly filed lawsuits against two AI startups, accusing them of using copyrighted music without permission to train their music generation models, resulting in audio that infringes on commercial copyrights. The lawsuits, coordinated by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), involve defendants Uncharted Labs, developers of Udio, and Suno, based in Massachusetts.

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Both companies generate music for users for a fee, but the record companies accuse them of using copyrighted music to train their AI models.

The record companies claim to have evidence that these two companies used copyrighted music to train their AI, as evidenced by the neural networks "overfitting," where the content generated by the models closely resembles specific training materials, revealing their training methods and demonstrating their ability to reconstruct copyrighted works on demand without permission.

The record companies are demanding that these companies acknowledge copyright infringement, shut down their AI services, pay legal fees, and pay $150,000 in damages for each infringing work.

Suno responded by stating that their model was not designed to mimic and believes that legal action can be avoided. CEO Mickey Schulman said, "Our technology is transformative; it is designed to produce entirely new outputs, not to memorize and repeat existing content. This is why we do not allow users to prompt specific artists."

Key Points:

⭐ Record companies have jointly sued two AI music generation companies, Suno and Udio, accusing them of using copyrighted music for training, infringing on commercial copyrights.

⭐ The record companies demand that the defendants acknowledge infringement, shut down their AI services, and pay $150,000 in damages for each infringing work.

⭐ AI music generation companies claim their technology is transformative, not imitative, but the record companies argue that they used copyrighted music, leading to legal disputes.