AI music startup Suno admits to using copyrighted music, but says it's 'fair use'

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AI music startup Suno has admitted that its AI model is trained on copyrighted music, but insists it's legally protected by the fair use doctrine.

Suno fleshed out this argument in a legal filing responding to a lawsuit from the Recording Industry Association of America on June 24. RIAA, which represents major record labels Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group, and Warner Music Group, is suing Suno and AI music company Udio for copyright infringement based on claims that they used music owned by the record labels to train their AI models. Read the full Mashable article here. Read the full Mashable article here.

For more information about copyright and training data lawsuits, see TCAI’s Curated Guide to AI Lawsuits.