Major Record Companies Sue AI Company for Copyright Infringement

TapTechNews June 25, Reuters reported that three major record companies, Sony Music, Universal Music, and Warner Music, sued the AI company Suno and Udio together this week, accusing them of committing large-scale copyright infringement by using the recordings of these record companies to train the music-generating AI system.

In the lawsuit, it was mentioned that these companies (Suno and Udio) copied music without permission and trained their systems to create music, and these musics will "directly compete with, devalue and eventually drown out" the works of human artists.

Suno's CEO Mikey Shulman responded: "Our technology is transformative, it is designed to generate completely new outputs, not to remember and repeat existing content." According to TapTechNews' previous report, they just released the V3.5 model at the beginning of this month and announced that it is open to all users.

The record companies requested the court to award $150,000 per song (TapTechNews note: currently about 1.094 million RMB) in statutory damages, and accused Suno of copying 662 songs and Udio of copying 1670 songs.

The chief executive of the Recording Industry Association of America, Mitch Glazier, said in a statement: "Services like Suno and Udio claim to 'fairly' copy the life's works of artists and use them for their own profit without consent or payment, which sets back truly innovative AI."