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Damages in major label lawsuit against Suno could top $9 billion after Sony and Universal add another 61,026 tracks

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Suno • 3 min read

Damages in major label lawsuit against Suno could top $9 billion after Sony and Universal add another 61,026 tracks

While there have been some legal settlements, both Suno and Udio are still fighting major label lawsuits. The majors now want to significantly expand the official list of recordings the AI companies have copied without licence, so that potential damages in the two cases go from millions to billions…

Chris Cooke • 26 May 2026

Suno sued again - this time by production duo who claim generative AI has caused an 80% slump in sync licensing income

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Suno • 3 min read

Suno sued again - this time by production duo who claim generative AI has caused an 80% slump in sync licensing income

Another day another Suno lawsuit. The AI company has been sued by production duo The American Dollar. This lawsuit is particularly interesting because the duo have traditionally made a lot of money from sync deals, and they say AI music like that generated by Suno has caused that income to slump…

Chris Cooke • 20 May 2026

Universal and Sony must be allowed to see Warner’s deal with Suno, lawyers tell judge as AI legal battle continues

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Suno • 5 min read

Universal and Sony must be allowed to see Warner’s deal with Suno, lawyers tell judge as AI legal battle continues

While Warner has signed a licensing deal with Suno, Universal and Sony are both still suing the music AI start-up. And they now want to see the Suno/Warner agreement as part of that legal battle, because they say the fact Suno signed the Warner deal disputes a key part of its fair use defence…

Chris Cooke • 27 Apr 2026

Suno is a feral pig rampaging through a well-tended garden, say creator orgs

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Suno • 7 min read

Suno is a feral pig rampaging through a well-tended garden, say creator orgs

A coalition of creator organisations has published a scathing open letter comparing Suno to jewel thieves, arguing the AI platform built its $2.45bn valuation on unlicensed scraping, pays almost nothing to creators, and has become a fraud-fodder factory on an industrial scale…

Sam Taylor • 25 Feb 2026

Merlin CEO Jeremy Sirota said “independent music is not raw material for tech companies to exploit without consent” before quitting to join AI music scraper-in-chief Suno

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Merlin CEO Jeremy Sirota said “independent music is not raw material for tech companies to exploit without consent” before quitting to join AI music scraper-in-chief Suno

No more TED talks, daddy! Ex-Merlin CEO Jeremy Sirota has moved to the dark side and joined one of the very companies he railed against. Having defended Merlin members against the predations of big tech, Sirota has signed up as big cheese of all things commercial at music scraping slop factory Suno…

Sam Taylor • 24 Feb 2026

Stream-ripper Yout says Suno and Udio have criticism “precisely right” over ruling in legal battle with major labels

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Stream-ripper Yout says Suno and Udio have criticism “precisely right” over ruling in legal battle with major labels

Suno and Udio recently sought to intervene in the major labels’ legal dispute with stream-ripper Yout, because a ruling in that case impacts on their own legal battles with the majors. Yout has now welcomed that intervention, but the majors say the AI companies are wrong about stream-ripping rules…

Chris Cooke • 03 Dec 2025

Suno picks up Songkick as part of AI licensing deal with Warner Music

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Suno • 4 min read

Suno picks up Songkick as part of AI licensing deal with Warner Music

Warner Music has settled its lawsuit and agreed a licensing deal with Suno. As with Warner’s earlier Udio deal, Suno will now make changes to its platform, while creator consent will be sought for voice clones and song remixes. However, there is one difference with this deal: Suno also gets Songkick…

Chris Cooke • 26 Nov 2025

“Innovation can’t be built on stolen goods” says Koda CEO, as Danish collecting society sues Suno

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“Innovation can’t be built on stolen goods” says Koda CEO, as Danish collecting society sues Suno

We have another music industry AI lawsuit in Europe. Danish collecting society Koda is suing Suno which it says has stolen “our members’ creative work and fed it into its machines without consent, transparency or remuneration”. It follows German society GEMA in suing Suno for copyright infringement…

Chris Cooke • 04 Nov 2025

Suno doesn’t understand copyright law and is wrong about stream-ripping rules, say major labels

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Suno doesn’t understand copyright law and is wrong about stream-ripping rules, say major labels

The majors have made another filing in their legal battle with Suno. They want to add claims that the AI company sourced its training data by illegally stream-ripping audio from YouTube. Suno insists it didn’t violate stream-ripping rules in US law, but the majors say Suno is misreading those rules…

Chris Cooke • 22 Oct 2025

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Suno • 4 min read

Having been accused of stream-ripping by the majors, Suno and Udio intervene in high profile stream-ripper case

The major labels recently added stream-ripping allegations to their Suno and Udio lawsuits. The AI start-ups say the majors’ new claims are invalid, but fear that a ruling in an earlier legal battle involving stream-ripper Yout could open them to liability. So they want that earlier ruling changed…

Chris Cooke • 13 Oct 2025

Suno tells court to reject stream-ripping “gambit” by major labels in AI legal battle

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Suno tells court to reject stream-ripping “gambit” by major labels in AI legal battle

The major labels recently requested to amend their lawsuit against Suno to include claims the AI company gathered its training data by stream-ripping audio from YouTube, in violation of copyright law. In response, Suno argues that any stream-ripping it may have done did not, in fact, violate US law…

Chris Cooke • 06 Oct 2025

Indie artist suing Suno amends lawsuit with new arguments against AI company’s fair use defence

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Indie artist suing Suno amends lawsuit with new arguments against AI company’s fair use defence

After the major labels updated their lawsuit against Suno, adding allegations of stream-ripping, the indie musician who also sued the music AI company has done the same. Anthony Justice hopes that recent judgements in cases involving Anthropic and Meta can help him defeat Suno’s fair use defence…

Chris Cooke • 24 Sep 2025