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Sony and UMG are suing Suno again
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Sony and UMG’s latest lawsuit against Suno accuses the company of ‘model laundering’
Sony and UMG’s latest lawsuit against Suno accuses the company of ‘model laundering’
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Sony and Universal Music Group filed yet another suit against Suno. The labels claim its new v6 model still infringes on their copyrights because it’s trained on user outputs from previous models, which were themselves trained on unlicensed music ripped from YouTube and other sources. Sony and UMG are notable holdouts who did not sign a licensing agreement with Suno.
In its complaint shared with The Verge, Sony and UMG accuse Suno of “model laundering,” saying:
“Training a ‘new’ model on the outputs of an infringing model does not eliminate the infringement; it launders it, passing the value of Plaintiffs’ expression from the copied recordings into the tainted models, from those models into their outputs, and from those outputs into v6 … V6 is not a fresh start; it is the fruit of the same poisoned tree.”