Universal and Sony sue Suno again, this time over 60 thousand recordings and the v6 model
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The labels are trying to keep control over what SI learns from, but the Warner and BMG deals show that music is negotiating with machines anyway.
The new lawsuit was filed in federal court in Massachusetts after a judge declined in August to add 61,026 recordings to the labels' first 2024 suit and suggested filing them separately. The labels claim Suno used 60,202 of their recordings without permission, and demand up to $150 thousand for each, theoretically more than $9 billion. They are seeking about $150 million more for circumventing YouTube's download protection. Suno says it trained v6 from scratch, but the labels argue that training a new model on the outputs of an infringing one "does not cure the infringement, it launders it"; v6, in their words, is "the fruit of the same poisonous tree." Warner and BMG have already signed licensing deals with Suno and are not part of the suit.