Musical Guild faces Udio and Suno; sue for copyright infringement

First there were the graphic artists with the campaign #NOTOAIy Now it’s the music guild’s turn to face the impact of generative artificial intelligence (IAGen).

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), supported by companies as Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment y Warner Recordspresented a lawsuit against music creation companies con Suno and Udio generative artificial intelligence because he considers that they violated copyright.

Both startups are well-known in the industry because allow you to use a text command to produce songs originalto this is added that sun has an association with Microsoftwhile Share was used to create the viral song BBL Drizzy.

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The music community has embraced IAGen by partnering with developers and looking for ways to use this new technology to expand the frontiers of human creativity (…), but the key word is human,” explained RIAA CEO and President Mitch Glazier.

In his X account, he detailed that apparently both sun as Share They created their services by ripping and copying large amounts of music protected by Copyright of the Internet, without asking permission or paying anything for it.

Of course, it is obvious what these services are trained with. They mass copied the plaintiffs’ copyrighted sound recordings and implemented them into their artificial intelligence models. These products can only function as they do by copying large quantities of sound recordings from artists of all genres, styles and eras,” one of the lawsuits warns.

*Mitch Glazier, CEO and president of the RIAA.

For Glazier, the above is an attack on the work of practically all artists and composers of sectoras well as an enormous threat to the healthy development of responsible and ethical artificial intelligence.

For this reason, the action was taken to sue both startups, in the case of sun in the District of Massachusetts and for Uncharted Labs, developer of Sharein the Southern District of New York.

Both cases seek, first, declarations that the two services infringed the plaintiffs’ copyrighted sound recordings; followed by precautionary measures to prevent both startups infringe recordings in the future of sound protected by copyright and, third, that damages are established for infringements that have already occurred.

In this last point it stands out that the Those affected are asking for compensation of up to 150 thousand dollars for each infringed work.

*Mikey Shulman, CEO of Suno.

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Mikey Shulman, CEO of Sunotold Billboard that their technology is transformative and designed to generate completely new results, not to memorize and generate pre-existing content.

“We would have liked to explain this to the corporate record labels that filed this lawsuit, and in fact we attempted to do so, but instead of having a good faith discussion, they reverted to their old lawyer-led playbook,” he said.

For their part, Udio managers have not yet established their position regarding the lawsuit.

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