Issue No. 056 · Story 02 · September 21, 2026

Universal and Sony File Second Copyright Suit Against Suno

Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment filed a second Massachusetts federal copyright lawsuit against Suno, alleging that its music-generation models infringed 60,202 sound recordings.

§The new complaint follows a court's refusal to add the 60,202 recordings to the labels' first Suno case.
§The labels allege that Suno's v6 models remain connected to earlier models trained on unlicensed recordings through user outputs and preference data.
§Suno says v6 was trained on licensed partner content, community interactions, and its team's accumulated learnings.
§The labels seek statutory damages, attorney fees, and a declaration of infringement.

THE TAKEAWAY

The case asks whether a newly licensed model can remain exposed to copyright claims because of what earlier models learned and passed forward. It also expands the dispute from a smaller set of example works to tens of thousands of identified recordings.

Source: Variety

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