The RIAA sues AI music services Suno and Udio over alleged mass copyright infringement and claims they are trying to “hide the full scope of their infringement”
here's what it means Ben's Bites : Major labels are suing AI music startups Suno and Udio Andy Maxwell / TorrentFreak : RIAA Sues Suno & Udio AI Music Generators For ‘Trampling’ on Copyright Markus Kasanmascheff / WinBuzzer : Music Giants Sue AI Music Startups Suno and Udio Over Copyright Infringements Stuart Dredge / Music Ally : Labels body RIAA sues AI music firms Suno and Udio for copyright infringement Brian Mutembei / The Crypto Times : Major Music Companies Sue Suno and Udio for AI Copyright Chris McKay / Maginative : Major Record Labels Sue AI Music Firms Suno and Udio for Copyright Infringement Benj Edwards / Ars Technica : Music industry giants allege mass copyright violation by AI firms Charlie Fink / Forbes : HeyGen AI Video Scores $60 Million, Plus More Cinematic AI Shorts Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE : Record labels file lawsuits against AI music generators Suno and Udio, alleging widespread copyright infringement Angela Yang / NBC News : U.S. record labels are suing AI music generators, alleging copyright infringement Casey Newton / Platformer : The record labels come for AI Jem Aswad / Variety : Major Labels Sue AI Music Services Suno and Udio for Copyright Infringement Emily Price / PCMag : RIAA Sues Popular AI Song Generators for Training on Major Artists' Work Brenda Kanana / Cryptopolitan : AI music platforms Suno and Udio face lawsuits from major record labels over copyright infringement Matthew Connatser / The Register : Record labels gang up to sue AI music generator duo into utter oblivion Jason Nelson / Decrypt : Music Industry Giants Sue AI Music Services Udio and Suno Emilia David / VentureBeat : Record labels sue AI music generator startups Suno, Udio for copyright infringement Britney Nguyen / Quartz : Record labels are suing AI music companies for ‘en masse’ copyright infringement Matthias Bastian / The Decoder : Music labels slam AI startups Suno and Udio with massive copyright lawsuit Paul Resnikoff / Digital Music News : UMG, WMG, Sony Music File Litigation Against AI Music Services Suno and Udio for Massive Copyright Infringement Nickie Louise / Tech Startups : AI startup companies Suno and Udio sued by major music labels for copyright infringement Jessica Bursztynsky / Fast Company : Record labels sue AI companies Suno and Uncharted Labs Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post : Record companies sue AI music generators Suno, Udio Simon Willison's Weblog : Listen to the AI-generated ripoff songs that got Udio and Suno sued. … Threads: Casey Newton / @crumbler : It really says something about the AI industry that I find myself siding with the RIAA https://www.platformer.news/ ... Jason Goldman / @goldman : The next phase in Kendrick's plan has been revealed. Embed BBL Drizzy in a landmark copyright case. 50 years from now lawyers will be saying “As established by the BBL Drizzy standard...” https://www.theverge.com/... Nilay Patel / @reckless1280 : The entire AI industry rests on a copyright house of cards, part 204349 https://www.theverge.com/... Mia Sato / @miasato.2 : New: The biggest music labels are suing two AI companies — Udio, the tool behind the viral BBL Drizzy song, and Suno, which has a Microsoft partnership https://www.theverge.com/... Mastodon: Casey Newton / @caseynewton@mastodon.social : It really says something about the AI industry that I find myself siding with the RIAA https://www.platformer.news/ ... [image] Aaron Ross Powell / @arossp@mastodon.social : A philosophical question: Assume these companies didn't pirate the files to train their models. What's the ontological difference between this and a musician buying song on iTunes and then recording a near identical cover? Other than one's a person and one's a computer. https://www.404media.co/... Kevin Beaumont / @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social : lol, not a surprise Suno are being sued. I used Suno via Microsoft Copilot (it's baked in) to make the Snowflake happy little cyber incident song - but while doing so realised they appear to have trained it on big songs, as it generates banger after banger. — https://www.404media.co/... Andy Baio / @andybaio@xoxo.zone : A coalition of major record labels, including UMG, Capitol, Atlantic, Rhino, and Warner, is suing the two biggest AI music startups, Suno and Udio, for mass copyright infringement. This is the most well-funded defendant so far to try to stop commercial services from training AI models on their work, and looking to set a precedent that it isn't fair use. https://www.theverge.com/... Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life@mas.to : The major record labels are suing two AI music companies for training their LLMs on copyrighted music. — The companies responded by saying the music they trained their AIs on are “confidential business information”. 🙃 — AI training data on copyrighted works then competing with those same workers is becoming a theme. … X: Jason Koebler / @jason_koebler : Pretty amazing stuff from the Udio/Suno lawsuits. Record labels were able to basically recreate versions of very famous songs with highly specific prompts, then linked to them in the lawsuits. I made a short compilation here: https://www.404media.co/... [video] Steven Sinofsky / @stevesi : @Suhail Yet amazingly they have done poorly for the performers and artists in the field. From Spotify to Live Nation the protectors of the system seem to have ended up sending money mostly to the non-performers of the equation. @suhail : This is not the primary reason I didn't work on AI generated music but it's definitely in the top three. The music industry is an extremely well coordinated group of people who have developed expertise at protecting their content libraries and artists for many decades. [image] @suhail : @stevesi I don't really blame the labels/spotify; the industry itself just doesn't make enough money so everyone is desperate to make their bag and so the splits are brutal. If consumers paid for it like software, it'd be a lot different but just don't value a play much. Nait Jones / @naithanjones : The RIAA lawsuit against generative music AI is likely good for consumer music AI companies in the long run but painful in the short run TLDR: The RIAA announced a lawsuit against a few VC backed generative music AI companies today on behalf of their members who are seeking John P. Strohm / @johnpstrohm : This is great news. I'm skeptical that anyone in this space wants a federal appeals court ruling on Fair Use for AI training. But any platform that trains on music without permission to roll the dice on Fair Use is in bad faith and should not be in the music space at all. @maximumadhd : Good, Generative AI usage needs to be dragged through the mud so it becomes too much of a liability to pursue these kinds of ventures. We need to focus on using AI technology for what it should be used for: as a tool to help accelerate dull monotonous work rather than completely Robert Komaniecki / @komaniecki_r : This is good but “Major record labels” are not exactly the people we should be looking towards to define intellectual property, historically speaking Jess Miers / @jess_miers : Copyright infringement claim for making too much music and creating too much competition [image] Tommy Beringer / @tb_num : The music industry is actually fine with AI believe it or not but they aren't fine with stealing. Before the dust settles new legal revenue streams will emerge from this AND/OR in a plot twist we might even see the record labels acquire Udio and Suno. I hear people compare @emilylazar_sm : Hey big tech.... Love ya but please stop f*cking over the creatives. All 3 major labels are suing AI music generators Suno & Udio. The RIAA is coordinating the lawsuits on behalf of Sony, Warner & UMG claiming the generators trained their AI on copyrighted music. Music isn't Ed Newton-Rex / @ednewtonrex : The 3 major record labels are suing AI music companies Suno and Udio. Here are the two lawsuits in full. - They accuse Suno & Udio of “willful copyright infringement on an almost unimaginable scale” - They provide evidence that both companies trained on their music, including Rob Freund / @robertfreundlaw : Good news! Major record labels sued Suno and Udio today. The labels accuse both Plagiarism Machines of training their services on “copyrighted sound recording en masse.” Both services refused to disclose their training source materials, citing “trade secrets” and “public data” [image] Rob Abelow / @abelowrob : BREAKING: All 3 major labels are suing AI music generators Suno & Udio. The RIAA is coordinating the lawsuits on behalf of Sony, Warner & UMG. Hammer, dropped. Here's the details: Today, two federal copyright infringement lawsuits were filed: 1. against Suno in the District @future_of_music : As expected, the major labels have sued two AI music companies, Suno and Udio, allleging copyright infringement with intent to “saturate the market with machine-generated content that will directly compete with, cheapen and ultimately drown out the genuine sound recordings.” Kerry Muzzey / @kerrymuzzey : Are we placing bets that the labels just want part ownership, Suno & Udio go public, labels sell their shares and make billions? I don't think labels are suing to stop it, I think labels are suing to get in on the action. Too cynical? Reid Southen / @rahll : That was fast. Still waiting for the film studios to catch up. https://www.wired.com/... [image] Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : The major record labels are suing two AI music companies for training their LLMs on copyrighted music. The companies responded by saying the music they trained their AIs on are “confidential business information”. 🙃 [image] @human_artistry : 🚨Huge news: @RIAA has filed suit against two AI giants for “mass infringement” of copyright, outlining damning evidence of widespread copying. This is a major step forward in the fight for responsible AI in creative spaces 👏 Mitch Glazier / @mitch_glazier : (1/8) Today, a group of music companies filed important new lawsuits against two AI music companies, Suno and Udio. I explained why this case matters so much in Billboard today. https://www.billboard.com/... @human_artistry : Statement from HAC Senior Advisor, Dr. Moiya McTier, on the @RIAA lawsuit against AI giants Suno & Udio, which alleges widespread copyright infringement with damning evidence: [image] @riaa : We stand behind artists and their invaluable creations. The RIAA has filed two major copyright infringement lawsuits against @suno_ai_ and @udiomusic for using copyrighted sound recordings without permission. @riaa : “Unlicensed services like Suno and Udio that claim it's ‘fair’ to copy an artist's life's work and exploit it for their own profit without consent or pay set back the promise of genuinely innovative AI for us all.” RIAA Chairman and CEO @mitch_glazier @riaa : Tell me you use copyrighted recordings without telling me you use copyrighted recordings... 🎵 Listen to these AI samples from @udiomusic... Oh wait, they took them down. But check out the prompts used to create the recordings. Find out more: https://www.riaa.com/... [image] @riaa : Name that tune 🎶! Sound familiar? That's because @suno_ai_ is training AI on copyrighted works... 🎧: https://suno.com/... 🎧: https://suno.com/... 🎧: https://suno.com/... Learn more about our legal action against Suno: https://www.riaa.com/... [image] Rachel Metz / @rachelmetz : UPDATE: Suno cofounder/ceo Mikey Shulman told us in a statement that Suno's technology is “transformative,” and “designed to generate completely new outputs, not to memorize and regurgitate pre-existing content” (he also noted that it doesn't let people prompt w/ artist names.)⤵️ [image] Rachel Metz / @rachelmetz : The labels are asking for damages of as much as $150k per work infringed; considering how large datasets must be to train this kind of AI system, that could, potentially, mean the startups owe a LOT of money if a judge finds their practices don't amount to fair use. Damon K / @dada_drummer : Here we go... will they cut us a better deal than Napster-to-Apple-to-Spotify...? Matthew Belloni / @mattbelloni : Your move, Hollywood... Justine Bateman / @justinebateman : Ironically, these are arms of two of the biggest film studios (one formerly and the other currently): Universal Music Group and Sony Music. The film studios, on the other hand, are desperate to use #AI, so they do nothing to stop their own copyright infringement. Damon K / @dada_drummer : What's crucial to me is for all of us to ask the major labels: are you acting here to protect artists? Or are you acting to protect your copyrights? Cause the history of major labels and streaming technology has proven that these two interests are not always the same... Rachel Metz / @rachelmetz : A hot one at the intersection of music and AI from me and @ashleyrcarman: record labels including Sony, Warner, and UMG are suing music-generating startups Suno and Udio for training their AI models on the labels' songs. Gift link! https://www.bloomberg.com/... Lucas Shaw / @lucas_shaw : 🚨 Record labels are suing two of the biggest music AI startups for violating their copyrights. @ashleyrcarman / @rachelmetz https://www.bloomberg.com/... Patrick Moorhead / @patrickmoorhead : @rachelmetz @ashleyrcarman Amazing how closely this trend follows the early search days. (I worked at AltaVista, the losing search engine.) @riaa : “These are straightforward cases of copyright infringement involving unlicensed copying of sound recordings on a massive scale,” RIAA chief legal officer Ken Doroshow Robert Scoble / @scobleizer : The music industry isn't happy about AI. LinkedIn: Emmanuelle Saliba : The music industry is fighting back against what they call “willful copyright infringement on an almost unimaginable scale.” … Rohan Paul : Oh look here come the consequences to their actions. Suno and Udio are being sued by all 3 major labels. … Declan McGlynn : We've seen this story before. I fear this is the first step towards majors ‘licensing’ content into AI music models that steal … Forums: r/DefendingAIArt : Listen to the AI-Generated Ripoff Songs That Got Udio and Suno Sued r/ChatGPT : Record Labels Sue Suno and Udio Over AI-Generated Music r/news : US Record Labels Sue AI Music Generators Suno and Udio for Copyright Infringement r/MediaSynthesis : “Music labels sue AI companies Suno, Udio for US copyright infringement” (finally) See also Mediagazer