Suno's AI music training faces novel US challenge by musicians Isbell, Lowery
By Mike Swift ( October 2, 2026, 21:57 GMT | Comment) -- Suno is facing a novel lawsuit from musicians David Lowery and Jason Isbell alleging the AI music service unlawfully indexed and exploited artists' identities and voices. Rather than copyright claims, the suit invokes state right-of-publicity laws and Illinois' biometric privacy law, arguing Suno collected musicians' "voiceprints" without consent. The case reflects creators' growing use of noncopyright laws to challenge AI training.On the Suno platorm, it only takes a few clicks to ask the artificial intelligence music service to generate music that one of your favorite artists might perform....
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