The music industry has officially declared war on Suno and Udio, two of the most prominent AI music generators. A group of music labels including Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, and Sony Music Group has filed lawsuits in US federal court on Monday morning alleging copyright infringement on a “massive scale.”
The plaintiffs seek damages up to $150,000 per work infringed. The lawsuit against Suno is filed in Massachusetts, while the case against Udio’s parent company Uncharted Inc. was filed in New York. Suno and Udio did not immediately respond to a request to comment.
“Unlicensed services like Suno and Udio that claim it’s ‘fair’ to copy an artist’s life’s work and exploit it for their own profit without consent or pay set back the promise of genuinely innovative AI for us all,” Recording Industry Association of America chair and CEO Mitch Glazier said in a press release.
The best part about this is that UMG WMG and SMG all simultaneously went “you can’t take an artist’s life work and exploit it, that’s unfair, it’s OUR job to take an artist’s life’s work and exploit it”
This is true in the art industry as well. Many outsourced artists from third world countries are exploited with unreasonable wages and long hours
Our technology is transformative; it is designed to generate completely new outputs, not to memorize and regurgitate pre-existing content
Oops! You appear to have consumed and believed your own shit you’re peddling
“Completely new”
Okay, then don’t train it on anything at all and let’s see how it turns out.
I wish we could hear music made by people who’ve never heard it before
To be fair, it’s as “new” as what the major record labels put out!
Aren’t there two guys who already “own” all possible combinations of notes they should get in on the fight too
So exploiting artists is fine, but when the labels get scammed, that’s where they draw the line?
But of course. If artists want to fight for their rights, they better get their own lawyers.
How convenient, that this would never happen, because the label leeched them dry
I can’t believe I’m on the music industry’s side on this. It’s a sad day when I have to root for the team that’s made it hard for me to make a living while they fight against the team that’s trying to make me obsolete.
Staggeringly naive, tbh. Your profession will be made obsolete as a self-sustaining for-profit enterprise either way. The difference is that the tooling can either be owned exclusively by megacorp, or it can be owned by people.
It’s better to be a bard relying on the charity and small custom of others than a literal sharecropper fueling Universal’s proprietary model for next to nothing. At least in the former case you’re free.
I see you missed my point.
The lawyers are just loving this AI bloodbath.
Okay, now we’re cooking!
This is like when the bad guy from the last movie teams up with the heroes at the last minute to help fight the new big bad.
AI tools and entertainment will become common place in the future. All these lawsuits decide is if we can have it for free or through a subscription payed to Sony and friends.
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