Suno

Suno is a generative artificial intelligence music creation platform. It is designed to generate music that can include vocals and instrumentation. The platform was initially developed by Suno, Inc., of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Suno has been widely available since December 20, 2023, after the launch of a web application and a partnership with Microsoft, which included Suno as a plugin in Microsoft Copilot. The program operates by producing songs based on prompts provided by its users, which can include text, audio, images, and video. In September 2026, Suno replaced its earlier models with the v6 family, which it said was developed with industry partners including Warner Music Group, BMG, and Believe. The company has been sued by the Recording Industry Association of America for copyright infringement. , it had settled with Warner Music Group and BMG and signed licensing deals with both, as well as with Believe, while Universal Music Group and Sony Music remained plaintiffs. In September 2026, the two companies filed a second lawsuit that extends their claims to the v6 models. A 2026 hack of the company revealed that it had scraped content from YouTube Music, Genius, Deezer and several other music and audio services, as well as podcasts, for use as training data.

Suno is a generative artificial intelligence music creation platform. It is designed to generate music that can include vocals and instrumentation. The platform was initially developed by Suno, Inc., of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Suno has been widely available since December 20, 2023, after the launch of a web application and a partnership with Microsoft, which included Suno as a plugin in Microsoft Copilot. The program operates by producing songs based on prompts provided by its users, which can include text, audio, images, and video. In September 2026, Suno replaced its earlier models with the v6 family, which it said was developed with industry partners including Warner Music Group, BMG, and Believe. The company has been sued by the Recording Industry Association of America for copyright infringement. , it had settled with Warner Music Group and BMG and signed licensing deals with both, as well as with Believe, while Universal Music Group and Sony Music remained plaintiffs. In September 2026, the two companies filed a second lawsuit that extends their claims to the v6 models. A 2026 hack of the company revealed that it had scraped content from YouTube Music, Genius, Deezer and several other music and audio services, as well as podcasts, for use as training data. ==Copyright== In 2024, Suno, Inc., was sued by the Recording Industry Association of America for copyright infringement, and thousands of musicians have signed a letter demanding that the company cease using copyrighted music in their training data. While Suno refused to disclose the dataset used to train its artificial intelligence, a 2026 hack of the company revealed that content had been scraped from a range of music and audio services. 404 Media reported that the two largest datasets were of YouTube Music audio—labeled "youtube_music" and "ytm_tagged"—at roughly 114,000 and 152,000 hours, with smaller sets drawn from Pond5, the International Music Score Library Project, Genius, Deezer, Jamendo, Freesound and MuseScore, as well as podcasts collected through RSS feeds. YouTube scraping was done through proxies from the company Bright Data. In August 2026, UMG, Capitol Records and Sony Music amended their complaint to add a claim under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's anti-circumvention provisions, alleging that Suno had circumvented YouTube's anti-downloading technology. In its answer the following month, Suno admitted that it had obtained audio from YouTube for training using yt-dlp, but argued that one or more of the labels lacked standing to bring the new claim. Suno pleaded fair use and, as a second defense, copyright misuse and unclean hands, repeating its allegation from its August 2024 answer that the labels had "engaged in anticompetitive activities that extend an unlawful monopoly over the production and commercialization of music". For v6, according to Brody, the models were trained from scratch on data different from that used for Suno's earlier models, including data licensed from its partners and user data. Suno said the user data was preference data, such as signals about which of two generated versions of a song a user preferred, rather than audio uploaded by users. Brody said the training data did not include data from UMG or Sony Music, which remained plaintiffs in the RIAA-coordinated lawsuit alleging copyright infringement in the training of Suno's earlier models. On September 18, 2026, UMG and Sony filed a second lawsuit against Suno in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, after the judge in the RIAA-coordinated case had declined in August to let them add 61,026 further recordings to it. The new complaint covers 60,202 sound recordings and alleges that training v6 on the outputs of Suno's earlier models, which it says were trained on copied recordings, "launders" the infringement rather than eliminating it: "v6 is not a fresh start; it is the fruit of the same poisoned tree." The labels seek an injunction and damages, including statutory damages of up to $150,000 per infringed work, and have demanded a jury trial. A Suno spokesperson called the claims "fundamentally flawed on both the facts and the law" and said v6 had been trained on "content licensed from our partners, interactions including creations and preference signals from our community, and the accumulated learnings from our team". According to Music Business Worldwide, this appeared to be the first time Suno had publicly included user "creations" in v6's training data, having told the publication at launch that the user data was preference data. , Suno was facing further legal action beyond the RIAA-coordinated suit. On July 31, 2026, a Munich regional court ruled against the company in a case brought by the German collecting society GEMA. The Danish society Koda sued Suno in Copenhagen in November 2025, and SOCAN filed a claim in Canada's Federal Court on September 2, 2026. Round Hill Music sued Suno and Bright Data on August 17, 2026, seeking damages it said could approach or exceed $1 billion, and on September 1, 2026, the musician Jason Isbell and three other artists filed a proposed class action alleging that Suno had commercially exploited their names and likenesses without consent. ==See also== Stable Audio – music generator from Stability AI ==References== ==External links==

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