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Paris-based digital music distribution and artist services group serving independent labels and self-releasing artists.
Three new models, one of them free, and no route back to the ones the labels sued over. The retirement was a settlement term rather than a product call, which tells you who the roadmap answers to.
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Universal Music and ElevenLabs announced a multi-year deal on September 10 for a remix and vocal platform still in development, with no launch date, no price and no participating artist named so far.
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Suno's v6 models shipped on September 9 trained on licensed Warner, BMG and Believe catalogues, about ten months after the deal was announced. Universal and Sony are still suing, so the price of the same catalogue is unsettled.
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The labels answer Suno's from-scratch claim for v6 by arguing the model learned from the outputs and preference data of earlier models trained on 60,202 of their recordings. The statutory ceiling reaches $9.03bn.
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The labels read Suno's own disclosure that v6 learned from user interactions as an admission that the outputs of its earlier scraped models fed the new one. They put the count at 60,202 recordings and the demand at up to $9 billion.
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Sony and UMG argue that a licensed retrain does not clear what Suno's older models left behind in user preference data and distilled behavior. A Massachusetts federal court now has to rule on that.
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A judge refused to let Universal and Sony amend their 2024 case and pointed them toward parallel suits, so the labels filed one built on a forensic analysis of Suno's training data and on Suno's own terms of service.
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Universal's complaint names 1,000 recordings at the $150,000 statutory maximum and calls those tracks the tip of the iceberg. Its language about DistroKid's growth and market valuation reaches a buyer that has not yet closed.
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Warner, BMG and Believe are credited as codevelopers of the new models, yet Suno still will not name the catalogs that trained them, and the v5 generation people had tuned their prompts against is switched off.
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The Warner settlement bought Suno a licensed corpus and a product roadmap. With six other claims still live in four countries and no rate, split or advance disclosed anywhere, the deal cannot yet be priced from outside.
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