The recording industry’s three major label groups are uniting in their fight against artificial intelligence. Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, and Warner Music Group are suing Suno and Udio, two AI start-ups, for copyright infringement. The labels, aided by the Recording Industry Association of America, claim the firms have engaged in “willful copyright infringement at an almost unimaginable scale” by copying their music to train AI on it.
Both Suno and Udio use AI to generate songs from users’ text prompts . Neither company has responded to the lawsuits yet, and both have previously been tight-lipped on how they trained their AI models. The labels are seeking both an injunction to stop the companies from training on their music and damages for the songs they have trained on.
The lawsuits argue that by flouting copyright, Suno and Udio “threaten enduring and irreparable harm to recording artists, record labels, and the music industry, inevitably reducing the quality of new music available to consumers and diminishing our shared culture.” Here’s what to know. The subject of the labels’ lawsuits are two of the biggest names in AI music creation.
Both models allow users to generate songs based on prompts, like “a jazz song about New York,” as Udio suggests in its guide . The models can make songs in a number of genres, either using lyrics written by the user or generated by AI. Suno was released in December 2023 with a Microsoft partnership, a.
