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BMG Rights Management is a global music company handling music publishing, recorded music, and artist/label services, among the largest independents.
The suit names Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann as individual defendants and rests on what Claude prints out, which turns training-data provenance into a line item for anyone shipping features on top of it.
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Three new models, one of them free, and no route back to the ones the labels sued over. The retirement was a settlement term rather than a product call, which tells you who the roadmap answers to.
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Suno's v6 models shipped on September 9 trained on licensed Warner, BMG and Believe catalogues, about ten months after the deal was announced. Universal and Sony are still suing, so the price of the same catalogue is unsettled.
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The labels answer Suno's from-scratch claim for v6 by arguing the model learned from the outputs and preference data of earlier models trained on 60,202 of their recordings. The statutory ceiling reaches $9.03bn.
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The labels read Suno's own disclosure that v6 learned from user interactions as an admission that the outputs of its earlier scraped models fed the new one. They put the count at 60,202 recordings and the demand at up to $9 billion.
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Sony and UMG argue that a licensed retrain does not clear what Suno's older models left behind in user preference data and distilled behavior. A Massachusetts federal court now has to rule on that.
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A judge refused to let Universal and Sony amend their 2024 case and pointed them toward parallel suits, so the labels filed one built on a forensic analysis of Suno's training data and on Suno's own terms of service.
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Universal's multi-year deal with ElevenLabs covers product development as well as rights, though the announcement does not name the participating artists, set a launch date or disclose terms, so the roster gets decided after signing.
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Warner, BMG and Believe are credited as codevelopers of the new models, yet Suno still will not name the catalogs that trained them, and the v5 generation people had tuned their prompts against is switched off.
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The Warner settlement bought Suno a licensed corpus and a product roadmap. With six other claims still live in four countries and no rate, split or advance disclosed anywhere, the deal cannot yet be priced from outside.
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Sony Music and Warner Chappell want up to $150,000 for each of thousands, maybe tens of thousands, of songs, and they argue in the filing that the $1.5bn Anthropic already paid was too small to deter anyone valued at $2 trillion.
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The publisher's complaints against Suno and Anthropic plead DMCA circumvention beside infringement, which moves a buyer's diligence question onto the corpus rather than the filter.
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