They claim the AI-music platform trained its models on their music without authorization<\/p>\n
Suno<\/strong> is being sued for copyright infringement by music duo The American Dollar<\/strong>, whose compositions have been used by brands such as Apple<\/strong> and in shows like CSI: Miami<\/em>.<\/p>\n The complaint was filed by Poseidon Wave Media<\/strong> \u2013 which is representing the duo \u2013 in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on May 12.<\/p>\n It alleges that Suno ingested 236 of the duo\u2019s sound recordings and compositions without authorization.<\/p>\n Those recordings were then used to train Suno\u2019s AI models.<\/p>\n The duo is seeking up to $150,000 per track infringement, totalling over $35 million.<\/p>\n Digital Music News<\/em> says Poseidon is also seeking a declaration of willful infringement, a preliminary and permanent injunction, and Suno\u2019s profits from infringement.<\/p>\n One of the plaintiffs’ key claims is that the volume of AI content produced by Suno has reduced their licensing revenue by nearly 80% since the platform\u2019s public launch.<\/p>\n As per Digital Music News<\/em>, to support their claims they used a Suno Pro account and input text prompts that specifically referenced their song titles.<\/p>\n Suno then produced songs that mimicked \u201ctheir unique musical architecture.\u201d<\/p>\n The American Dollar allege that Suno’s use of their music to train its AI models has resulted in competing tracks entering the market which were, damningly, informed by their work.<\/p>\n An excerpt from the filing: \u201cThe decades it has taken for plaintiff to develop and refine their process and methods of music creation, and the weeks to month spent by plaintiff in developing each single original musical piece, has been co-opted by defendant and used to supplant plaintiff\u2019s original musical works in the marketplace.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Music duo The American Dollar is suing AI platform Suno for $35 million, alleging unauthorized use of their recordings for AI training data.","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5510,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"csco_display_header_overlay":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[518],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-policy-legal","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"yoast_head":"\n