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Suno argues in US copyright case that AI-generated music isn't derivative work

( August 18, 2025, 22:31 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Suno moved to dismiss US copyright claims filed by country singer Anthony Justice, arguing that even if it “trained” its artificial intelligence using Justice’s recordings, music generated by the model is not invariably a derivative work of those recordings. “That gambit that has been attempted by other plaintiffs in the wave of copyright litigation over generative AI making its way through the federal court system. And every court to have confronted the issue has concluded that just because outputs of an AI model are in the plain-English sense ‘derived’ from a set of copyrighted works does not mean that the outputs of the model are all prima facie infringing ‘derivative works’ in the copyright law sense,” it said.See attached file. ...

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