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Suno unveils upgrade developed with “music industry partners”, while continuing to battle the music industry in court

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Suno • 4 min read

Suno unveils upgrade developed with “music industry partners”, while continuing to battle the music industry in court

Suno has unveiled v6 of its music AI platform, which has been developed with its industry partners like Warner Music, BMG and Believe. However, even as it starts to work with some labels and publishers on new AI products, it continues to fight other music companies in the courts…

Chris Cooke • 09 Sep 2026

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Latest Suno lawsuit accuses AI company of violating the publicity rights of musicians rather than infringing their copyrights

Suno is facing another lawsuit from the music industry. But this time it’s not a copyright lawsuit. A group of musicians claim Suno has violated their US publicity rights by “encoding musicians’ identities into its AI model” and then “exploiting those identities by publicly using musicians’ names”…

Chris Cooke • 02 Sep 2026

Universal and Sony file amended Suno lawsuit after judge gives all clear to add stream ripping claims

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Universal and Sony file amended Suno lawsuit after judge gives all clear to add stream ripping claims

Earlier this month Universal and Sony were given permission to add stream ripping allegations to their Suno lawsuit, prompting the filing of an amended complaint this week. Those allegations may make it easier for the majors to defeat the AI company’s ‘fair use’ defence in the copyright dispute…

Chris Cooke • 28 Aug 2026

Round Hill joins the AI lawsuit party, targets Suno and Anthropic

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Round Hill joins the AI lawsuit party, targets Suno and Anthropic

More lawsuits have been filed against generative AI companies, this time its Round Hill suing Suno and Anthropic. Aware both defendants will claim that AI training is ‘fair use’ - meaning they can use existing music without permission - Round Hill insists “there is nothing fair about that use”…

Chris Cooke • 19 Aug 2026

Songwriter AI victory in Europe as GEMA beats Suno in copyright lawsuit

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Songwriter AI victory in Europe as GEMA beats Suno in copyright lawsuit

The European music industry has scored a significant win when it comes to AI and copyright, with a German court siding with collecting society GEMA against Suno. Judges ruled that Suno breached US and German copyright law by training its model on GEMA controlled compositions without permission…

Chris Cooke • 31 Jul 2026

Two class action lawsuits filed over Suno’s big data breach

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Two class action lawsuits filed over Suno’s big data breach

Following the recent media reports that data connected to 55.3 million Suno users was accessed by hackers last November, two class action lawsuits have now been filed against the AI company over its failure to protect that data. Which makes a nice change from all the copyright infringement lawsuits…

Chris Cooke • 29 Jul 2026

Judge should block major label attempts to expand track lists in AI litigation, says Suno

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Judge should block major label attempts to expand track lists in AI litigation, says Suno

The majors have been trying to massively expand the list of named tracks in their lawsuits against Udio and Suno, in doing so increasing potential damages if they win. But the judge in the Udio case has said it’s too late to add more tracks. Suno says the judge in its case should now rule the same…

Chris Cooke • 06 Jul 2026

US musicians’ union sues Universal and Warner over AI deals, claims breach of ‘new use’ clause in record industry’s performer agreement

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US musicians’ union sues Universal and Warner over AI deals, claims breach of ‘new use’ clause in record industry’s performer agreement

As the majors start to do deals with AI companies, artists are increasingly concerned about how those deals work and how the money will be shared. Now the American Federation Of Musicians has gone legal, claiming Universal and Warner have breached a ‘new use’ provision in their musicians’ agreement…

Chris Cooke • 08 Jun 2026

Suno really doesn’t want you to know how many audio files it copied when training its music AI model

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Suno really doesn’t want you to know how many audio files it copied when training its music AI model

Universal and Sony are still suing Suno, and have accessed lots of info about the AI company in the process. Suno is very keen for one bit of data, the total number of audio files it used when training its AI, to stay confidential, despite a New York journalist’s efforts to force full transparency…

Chris Cooke • 02 Jun 2026

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

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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 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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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