Music Industry Giants Sue AI Music Services Udio and Suno
The post Music Industry Giants Sue AI Music Services Udio and Suno appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.
The Recording Industry Association of America—along with a coalition of music industry titans—has filed a lawsuit against AI developers Udio and Suno, the group announced on Monday. The lawsuit stems from what the RIAA described as “mass infringement of copyrighted sound recordings.” In lawsuits filed in the Southern District of New York and the District of Massachusetts, the RIAA alleges that Suno and Udio illegally used recordings to train their respective AI models, including recordings by Mariah Carey, Jason Derulo, The Temptations, and The Jackson 5. “As a preliminary matter, only Suno and Udio know the full scope of what they’ve illegally copied,” an RIAA spokesperson told Decrypt. “They have both taken steps to hide the scope of their widescale infringement, which we expect to uncover in the litigations. But we know more than just that the snippets ‘sound like’ copyrighted recordings.” Others joining the lawsuit against Suno and Udio include UMG Recordings, Capital Records, Rhino Entertainment, and Warner Music International. Both Suno and Udio are generative music services, which allow users to create music based on descriptions or uploaded samples. The RIAA lawsuit is similar to several filed by book and news publishers against AI companies for allegedly training their text models on their content. According to the RIAA spokesperson, simple prompts mentioning an artist and their work produce recordings that “overwhelmingly mimic and replicate specific recordings” by those artists or their voices, style, and sound. “There is no way basic text prompts could produce such sounds if the models themselves had not copied and ingested those artists’ copyrighted work,” they said. “These are straightforward cases of copyright infringement involving unlicensed copying of sound recordings on a massive scale,” RIAA Chief Legal Officer Ken Doroshow said in a statement. “Suno and Udio are attempting to hide the full scope…
Filed under: News - @ June 26, 2024 1:28 am