Suno

Suno is ‘far beyond’ 2m subscribers and $300m in revenue, says Mikey Shulman – who argues it’s ‘good’ that AI music has no ‘firm rules of the road’ yet

Shulman also set out what WMG and BMG get from their deals, and who should be setting AI's rules.

Suno confirms V6 model was trained on ‘creations’ from users, as it blasts latest Sony and Universal lawsuit

The company set out that description in a statement responding to a second copyright lawsuit filed by Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment.

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Suno hires ex-Hightouch CFO Cherry Miao as its first finance chief: ‘Music is one of the things that makes humans human’

Miao oversaw finance, legal, data and revenue operations at Hightouch, and had been both a customer and an angel investor in the company before joining it.

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In addition to its vinyl move, now Suno is readying a merch store.

Suno is using Fourthwall for the service, which runs stores for brands including New York Magazine, Vox, and Eater

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Suno inks global licensing deal with Believe

Paris-headquartered music company becomes latest to ink deal with AI music platform Suno

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Suno and Bright Data sued again by ‘Blurred Lines’ lawyer Richard Busch – this time for Regional Mexican label Gerencia 360

Gerencia 360 alleges that Suno copied its Spanish-language works so that it could capture a significant share of the Spanish language AI user market.

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Judge refuses to dismiss indie artist’s proposed class action against Suno, clearing AI output and stream-ripping claims for discovery

Only one count fell: a claim under the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act, which the plaintiffs told the court they had cited by mistake.

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5 things to know about Round Hill’s Suno and Anthropic lawsuits: model weights, extraction tools, and a $75M number

Round Hill says statutory damages could approach or exceed $1 billion in each case, and intends to take both Suno and Anthropic to trial.

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Round Hill is suing Suno and Anthropic for up to $1B apiece. It isn’t looking to settle.

Each complaint seeks statutory damages of up to USD $150,000 per work willfully infringed.

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5 things to know about Suno’s BMG licensing deal, download caps, watermarks, and more

The BMG deal supplies the rights; the caps and the watermarks supply the controls. The other two are new exits: one professional, one physical.

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Jamendo drops its copyright infringement lawsuit against Suno, six weeks after filing it

The withdrawal arrives as Suno rewrites the rules of its platform, saying it will adopt audio watermarking and fingerprinting technology in the coming weeks.

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Suno brings its voice clone tool to iOS and Android, opens a limited version to free users

Voices lets a user record or upload audio of themselves singing, which Suno then uses to generate new songs in that person's voice.

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Five things to know about Suno’s data breach – and the hack that exposed how the AI music company trains its models

Some Suno customers whose records were exposed said they had not been notified of the breach.

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Suno loses copyright infringement lawsuit brought by GEMA in Germany

AI music generator Suno has lost the copyright infringement lawsuit brought by German collecting society GEMA. The collecting society alleged that Suno used, stored and reproduced copyrighted music to train its AI tool without a license or payment to the rightsholders. Reuters reported on Friday morning (July 31) that the Munich Regional Court found Suno … Continued

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Suno scraped YouTube, Deezer to train AI, hacked code reveals – potentially strengthening UMG and Sony’s legal case

The code was obtained by a hacker who breached Suno and shared it with 404 Media.