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Major Labels File Lawsuits Over AI Companies' Alleged Copying of 'World's Most Popular' Recordings
Major record labels including Capitol Records and Sony Music Entertainment sued two music-focused generative artificial intelligence companies, accusing them of "willful copyright infringement on an almost unimaginable scale." The lawsuits allege that the generative AI companies, Udio and Suno, copied "decades' worth of the world's most popular sound recordings" to create their services, which produce digital music files in response to users' prompts.
The plaintiff music companies are represented by attorneys at Hueston Hennigan and, in the case against Suno in the District of Massachusetts, Cloherty & Steinberg. UMG Recordings Inc. v. Suno Inc., 1:24-cv-11611. In the case against Udio in the Southern District of New York, the Hueston Hennigan team is joined by Jonathan King of Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman. UMG Recordings Inc. v. Uncharted Labs Inc., d/b/a Udio.com, 1:24-cv-04777.
The plaintiffs together "own or exclusively control copyrights in a great majority of the most commercially valuable sound recordings in the world," the attorneys wrote in both complaints. "They have developed their enviable catalogs by discovering, developing, and promoting human recording artists, whose artistic contributions are the bedrock of the recorded music industry and the music we listen to today. … Plaintiffs have a track record of embracing innovation and have entered into voluntary free-market licensing deals that authorize the use of their protected sound recordings in emerging technologies," the attorneys wrote.
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