Sony, UMG bring additional US copyright claims against Suno in new suit
( September 18, 2026, 16:46 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Sony Music Entertainment and UMG Recordings filed a new US copyright complaint against Suno over its music generation service, adding claims of 61,000 additional infringed works identified through a forensic analysis of Suno’s training data. The record companies are already suing Suno for copyright infringement in a parallel action, but said that because Suno concealed the contents of its training data, the complaint in the previous action “identified a minuscule illustrative fraction of the recordings Suno had actually copied.”See attached file. ...
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