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Sony Music Sues Udio Over 30,117 Recordings

1 reports · First detected 2026-07-22 · Last active 2026-07-22

Udio, developed by Uncharted Labs and launched in April 2024, lets users generate music from text prompts. Sony Music Entertainment and its labels first sued the company in June 2024 in litigation coordinated by the Recording Industry Association of America, alleging copyrighted recordings were copied to train its models without permission. The dispute tests whether large-scale ingestion of music can qualify as fair use, a question with broad implications for licensing and compensation across the recording industry.

Sony Music Entertainment and nine affiliates filed a second complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on July 20, 2026, alleging infringement of 30,117 recordings. The filing followed a June 29 ruling that blocked Sony from adding more than 30,000 works to the original case. The catalog includes songs by Elvis Presley, Beyoncé and Harry Styles. Sony seeks statutory damages of as much as $150,000 per infringed work, up to $2,500 per circumvention act, and an injunction.

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THEVERGE.COM 2026-07-21
Here are the 30,000 songs Sony is suing Udio’s AI music generator over

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Sony’s Suno Lawsuit Heads to Trial in First Test of AI Training Fair Use2026-07-10 · 1 reports · similarity 0.84

Sony Music’s copyright lawsuit against AI music-generation platform Suno is the first case worldwide set to determine whether training AI constitutes fair use. As major labels including Warner Music and Universal Music Group have chosen to settle with AI companies, Sony Music remains the only recording giant pressing ahead with litigation. The ruling could shape future copyright rules and commercial licensing practices across the generative AI industry.

The case is scheduled to formally go to trial in U.S. federal court in July 2026. Sony Music alleges that Suno used copyrighted songs without authorization to train its AI models and is seeking statutory damages of up to $150,000 for each infringed work. Because Warner Music and Universal Music Group previously chose to settle with AI platforms, the final ruling could become the world’s first key judicial precedent on whether AI training qualifies as fair use.

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