Suno
1 item across 1 edition. First seen Mon 9 Nov, last seen Mon 9 Nov.
- The Detroit Free Press reports that Ferndale, Michigan publisher Eight Mile Style sued Suno "late Friday night (Nov. 6) in San Francisco federal court", claiming copyright infringement and other violations and seeking "more than $41 million in damages". The 32-page complaint says it is entitled to $150,000 for each of the 269 Eminem compositions it controls, "or $40.4 million", plus $672,000 for allegedly removing digital copyright information embedded in the songs used for training.
- The complaint notes Suno "has previously disclosed in court that its AI model was trained on 'essentially all music files of reasonable quality that are accessible on the open Internet'", and alleges guardrails blocking artist-name prompts can be bypassed with descriptor strings such as "aggressive rap, rapid-fire flow, dark humor, male rapper, horrorcore".
- WREG reports that a group owning the rights to Elvis Presley's catalogue filed a separate suit against Suno on Friday, quoting the complaint: "Suno is the embodiment of why the ELVIS Act [Ensuring Likeness, Voice, and Image Security] was so essentially required." WREG says the same group sued Anthropic last month in federal court in Northern California, that lead counsel is Richard Busch, and that the plaintiffs demand a jury trial.
- These are complaints, not rulings, and the damages figures are what the plaintiffs seek. A Suno spokesperson told the Free Press: "Suno exists to help people create new, original music, not to trade on anyone's name or likeness, and we prohibit any unauthorized use of an artist's work." The Free Press notes BMG and Warner Music Group have since signed licensing deals with Suno while Universal Music Group remains a plaintiff in the 2024 RIAA case.