Sony and UMG are suing Suno again
Sony and Universal Music Group sued Suno again, alleging its v6 model launders copyrighted training data.
Sony and Universal Music Group filed another lawsuit against AI music company Suno, claiming version 6 still infringes because it was trained on user outputs from earlier models trained on unlicensed music from YouTube and other sources. The labels, which did not sign a license with Suno, call this "model laundering" and allege distillation from infringing teacher models. Suno has said v6 was trained from the ground up on a new dataset that includes user creations, without further detail.
- Sony and UMG filed another copyright lawsuit against Suno over v6.
- They allege v6 was trained on outputs of infringing earlier models.
- The complaint calls the approach model laundering via distillation.
- Sony and UMG have not licensed their catalogs to Suno.
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- AI models
- Suno v6
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Suno’s AI vocalists could learn a thing or two from this glitchy image. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Sony and Universal Music Group filed yet another suit against Suno. The labels claim its new v6 model still infringes on their copyrights because it's trained on user outputs from previous models, which were themselves trained on unlicensed music ripped from YouTube and other sources.
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