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Major recorded-music group owned by Sony, with labels including Columbia and RCA.
Sony Music has asked platforms to remove more than 260,000 AI deepfakes of its artists, almost double its count at the end of March. The label calls the work an uphill struggle and wants platforms to stop removed tracks from coming back.
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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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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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