Court filings: AI startups Suno and Udio respond to copyright lawsuits from major music labels, saying using proprietary music to train AI models is fair use
In their first responses to the sweeping copyright lawsuits that could define AI music, lawyers for Suno and Udio don't exactly hold back.
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Discussion
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@andimann.bsky.social
Andi Mann
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Wow! I mean, guess they gotta try something, bit this looks like open and shut ‘derivative works’ to me, a layperson content creator. 🤷♂️ [embedded post]
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@riaa
@riaa
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@RIAA response to statement of @suno_ai_ & @udiomusic illegal copying lawsuit responses. [image]
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@mikeyshulman
Mikey
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We're filing our response to the members of the RIAA today. It's important to understand additional context around our mission and what is at stake. You can read more about it on the suno blog ( https://suno.com/...) or below
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@riaa
@riaa
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If its's against their policies to use real artists as prompts, then why, in this presentation to venture capitalists, is @suno_ai_ co-founder caught on video using ‘Hendrix’ as a prompt to demonstrate the platform's capabilities? 👀 https://www.youtube.com/... [image]
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@jason_koebler
Jason Koebler
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A stunning sentence: “Suno's training data includes essentially all music files of reasonable quality that are accessible on the open internet, abiding by paywalls, password protections, and the like, combined with similarly available text descriptions” https://www.404media.co/..…
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@ednewtonrex
Ed Newton-Rex
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Suno and Udio have both responded to the RIAA's lawsuits. In amongst the defenses they put forward, they both admit that the recordings they trained on “presumably included recordings whose rights are owned by the [major record labels]”. While they say this is “no secret”, I [ima…
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@suno_ai_
Suno
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Suno's mission is to make it possible for everyone to make music. We imagine a future where music is a bigger, more valuable, and more meaningful part of people's lives than it even is today. Technology enables a future where the whole world can explore, create, and be active [vi…
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@robertfreundlaw
Rob Freund
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Suno and Udio have answered the record labels' copyright complaints against them, and their long-winded preambles are pure sophistry. The labels' premise is not that they own genres of music, but that these AI gremlins copied the recordings. Straw man at its most obvious. [image]
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@tprstly
Theo
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It's hilarious to think that a generative AI startup's best defence when taken to court is “well they've got all the rights and it's not fair so we plagiarised because that's what fair use is now” The mental gymnastics to avoid admitting theft is nuts. https://chatgptiseatingthew…