Suno has been sued by Gerencia 360 Music, an independent record label, publisher, booking agency, and management company that specializes in Regional Mexican and Latin music.
The complaint was filed on Monday (August 31) in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, as case number 3:26-cv-09248. You can read it in full here.
It names Suno, Inc. alongside Israeli data-scraping firm Bright Data Ltd. and its US subsidiary, Bright Data, Inc.
Gerencia 360, which is based in Burbank, California, alleges that Suno copied its Spanish-language works so that it could “quickly capture a significant share of the Spanish language AI user market.”
Gerencia 360 is represented by Adams & Reese‘s Richard S. Busch, who won the Blurred Lines case for Marvin Gaye‘s family while at King & Ballow.
Busch is joined on the filing by Adams & Reese attorneys Mark L. Block, Andrew H. Davis, and David Niemierzycki, with Skaggs Faucette LLP as local counsel.
That same team filed two complaints for Round Hill Music on August 17: one against Suno and Bright Data, the other against Anthropic.
Round Hill said it had no intention of settling either of its cases.
The Gerencia 360 suit seeks actual damages and profits or, in the alternative, statutory damages of up to USD $150,000 per work willfully infringed.
It puts the total for Suno‘s alleged direct infringement of 444 registered works at $66,600,000, and seeks an identical sum from Bright Data on a contributory infringement count.
Two further counts, brought under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act against all defendants, cover 1,174 works and carry stated totals of $2,935,000 and $29,350,000.
Across the four counts, the figures pleaded come to just over $165 million.
(The first two counts, however, both claim $66,600,000 for the same 444 works – one against Suno, the other against Bright Data.)
Gerencia 360‘s catalog includes works by Adriel Favela, Cornelio Vega y su Dinastía, and Noel Torres.
The complaint says those songs have drawn over six billion streams between them, and lists Miami Vibe, performed by Código FN and Adriel Favela, among the works at issue.
Gerencia 360 alleges that Suno obtained its recordings and lyrics by scraping licensed platforms including YouTube, Deezer, and Genius, using tools and proxy services supplied by Bright Data.
Doing so, the complaint states, required circumventing authentication gates, subscription paywalls, rate limiting, CAPTCHA challenges, and robots.txt restrictions.
The suit says Bright Data provided services to Suno “which are only good for copyright infringement – namely the making of unlicensed copies of songs and lyrics…”
The filing leans on Suno‘s answer in the majors’ Boston case, in which the company said its 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.”
It also quotes Suno co-founder and CEO Mikey Shulman from a promotional video the company recorded with Oracle: “Our models are taught to just continue a piece of music.”
Elsewhere, Gerencia 360 argues that Suno‘s guardrails are simple to work around.
It says the platform declined to build a norteño song from the Spanish lyrics to 15 Besos by Cornelio Vega y su Dinastía.
Supplied with the same lyrics in English translation, Suno built the song anyway and generated a Spanish title: Quince Besos.
Suno is defending copyright claims on several fronts.
The majors sued in Boston in June 2024, in a case coordinated by the RIAA. Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment remain plaintiffs.
On August 25, UMG and Sony added a DMCA circumvention claim over YouTube “stream ripping.”
That amendment followed an August 18 order from Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV clearing the labels to bring the claim.
Warner Music Group settled and licensed Suno in November 2025, selling it Songkick.
BMG, which never sued Suno, recently signed its own licensing deal with the platform announced last month.
Meanwhile, Munich Regional Court ruled against Suno on July 31 in the case brought by German collecting society GEMA. Suno says it is weighing an appeal.
Bright Data‘s role in the training pipeline surfaced on July 15, when hacked source code reported by 404 Media showed Suno using Bright Data proxies to scrape YouTube.
Responding to the Round Hill case against it, a Bright Data spokesperson told MBW: “Bright Data is a web data infrastructure company that provides access to publicly available information on the open internet.
“Access to public web data is legally recognized and well established, and we remain committed to enabling that access responsibly and transparently.”
Suno said in February that more than 100 million people had used its platform, and raised more than $400 million in June at a $5.4 billion valuation.
The Gerencia 360 complaint closes its fair use section this way: “There is simply nothing fair about a company using theft to build for purely commercial purposes a multi-billion dollar business while those from which they steal receive nothing.”Music Business Worldwide
