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Indie musicians, song writers accuse Udio of US copyright infringement for AI music

( October 15, 2025, 15:27 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: A proposed class led by indie song writers and musicians including Chicago-based R&B band Attack the Sound is accusing AI music generator Udio in Illinois federal court of violating US copyright laws, including the Copyright Act and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. "To run this mass-market music generation engine, Udio copied and maintains a centralized library of essentially all music files of reasonable quality taken from online sources without permission, together with text descriptions, using these copies and descriptions to train and operate models that produce outputs replacing licensed music on a large scale," the complaint alleges. See attached file. ...

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