Universal Music Group, Sony Music, and Warner Music have filed a joint lawsuit against Suno and Udio, two AI music generation companies, seeking $4.5 billion in damages for alleged copyright infringement.
The lawsuit claims that Suno and Udio trained their AI models on copyrighted music without permission, effectively creating systems that can generate songs in the style of specific artists.
The case is expected to set important legal precedents for AI training on copyrighted content — with implications far beyond the music industry. The outcome could affect how AI companies in every field handle training data.
Both companies argue that training AI on publicly available content constitutes fair use under US copyright law — the same argument used by Google in its book-scanning case, which the Supreme Court decided in Google's favour.