The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) filed a lawsuit against Suno and Udio, two music-generating services, alleging they used unauthorized recordings to train their AI models. Suno, accused of infringement, admitted to scraping copyrighted material with its technology but stressed that its data scraping was legal.
According to Suno's argument, it emphasizes "legitimate citation" in copyright protection, and the content automatically generated by its artificial intelligence technology does not include the original reference music works. Therefore, even if it uses its technology to capture music content and then complete the relevant artificial intelligence technology training process, it does not constitute infringement.
However, the Recording Industry Association of America responded by accusing Suno of misleading claims, arguing that the scale of Suno's technology use no longer meets the requirements of "legitimate citation." Instead, it grabs all the hard work of music creators and repackages it with its core value, then competes with the original music in the market. This is actually not fair at all, and this is the infringement claimed in this lawsuit.
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) filed a lawsuit against Suno in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. The plaintiffs are music companies Sony Music, Universal Music, and Warner Music, and the RIAA is primarily representing them in the lawsuit. In addition to the lawsuit against Suno, the RIAA also filed a lawsuit against Suno in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts.
In the lawsuit, the Recording Industry Association of America stated that both Suno and Udio trained their artificial intelligence models with a large amount of copyrighted recordings, and sought an injunction from the court, as well as compensation for related copyright infringement losses.
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) further alleges that when Suno and Udio provide services with instructions based on a specific release year, theme, genre, or the name of a specific singer, performer, or composer, their automatically generated content will produce music content with a very similar style, thereby affecting the rights and value of music creators.
Similarly, numerous website content providers have previously filed lawsuits against companies like OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft, alleging that their content was used for AI training without authorization. Many AI technology companies have opted to settle with content providers by paying fees, while some have offered to share advertising revenue with them. However, others have opted not to make any adjustments.
