AI Firms Blast Lawsuit From Music Giants: ‘Labels See a Threat to Their Market Share’

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AI firms Suno and Udio responded to lawsuits filed by music companies, saying they're free to use copyrighted songs and blasting the labels for suing.

filed by the major record labels, arguing that they were free to use copyrighted songs to train their models and claiming the music industry is abusing intellectual property to crush competition.In legal filings on Thursday, the two firms admitted to using proprietary materials to create their artificial intelligence, with Suno saying it was “no secret” that the company had ingested “essentially all music files of reasonable quality that are accessible on the open Internet.

In doing so, they took square aim at the major labels that— a group that they said “dominates the music industry” and is now abusing copyright law to maintain that power. Suno and Udio have quickly become two of the most important players in the emerging field of AI-generated music. Udio has already produced what could be considered an AI-generated hit with “BBL Drizzy,” a parody track popularized with a remix by super-producerIn June, the major labels sued both companies, claiming they had infringed copyrighted music on an “unimaginable scale” to train their models.

“Those genres and styles — the recognizable sounds of opera, or jazz, or rap music — are not something that anyone owns,” Suno wrote in its filing. “Our intellectual property laws have always been carefully calibrated to avoid allowing anyone to monopolize a form of artistic expression, whether a sonnet or a pop song.”

 

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