Record companies file second amended US copyright complaint against Suno
( August 25, 2026, 22:32 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: UMG Recordings, Sony Music Entertainment and Capitol Records filed their second amended US complaint accusing AI music company Suno of acquiring the music it trained its algorithms on through piracy. "[I]t is obvious what Suno’s service is trained on. Suno copied plaintiffs’ copyrighted sound recordings en masse and ingested them into its AI models. Suno’s product can only work the way it does by copying vast quantities of sound recordings from artists across every genre, style, and era. The copyrights in many of those sound recordings are owned or exclusively controlled by Plaintiffs,” they said.See attached file. ...
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