AI Music Companies Suno and Udio Hire Major Law Firm for Copyright Lawsuit Against Major Labels

[Monthly Mixing] AI music companies Suno and Udio have hired the major law firm Latham & Watkins to defend against copyright lawsuits from major labels.

At the end of June, Sony Music, Warner Music, and Universal Music filed lawsuits against Suno and Udio through the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). They claim that the two companies illegally duplicated the labels' music for AI model training.

According to Billboard's report on the 11th (local time), the law firm hired by Suno and Udio to respond to this lawsuit is Latham & Watkins, which has previously defended major AI companies such as Anthropic and OpenAI in copyright infringement cases. It is expected that they will argue that AI training falls under the Fair Use principle of copyright law in this lawsuit as well.

Suno and Udio have so far avoided commenting on whether they used copyrighted works without permission. However, Fairly Trained, a generative AI monitoring company, has claimed that copyright infringement was analyzed in music generated by Suno.

According to local media, the lawsuit presents as evidence AI-generated music similar to the voices of Bruce Springsteen, Michael Jackson, ABBA, and others, as well as outputs nearly identical to famous songs such as Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas Is You," ABBA's "Dancing Queen," and Green Day's "American Idiot."