Suno is facing two new lawsuits involving disputes over AI music clones.
Suno is confronting another pair of legal actions. Rights holders for Elvis Presley's music and the publisher behind several of Eminem's biggest hits have sued the AI music company. They allege that Suno illegally generates music and lyrics that imitate these artists. Lawyers in the Presley case argue that Suno violated Tennessee's Ensuring Likeness Voice and Image Security (ELVIS) Act, which criminalizes the cloning of a singer's voice by AI companies.
In the lawsuit, attorneys representing the Presley rights holders contend that “Suno has mechanically encoded itself with artists’ identities, hard-work, creativity, and time, and harnessed them all for a consistent conveyor belt of cold hard cash.”
These suits closely resemble one filed by Jason Isbell and others in September, which alleged Suno created imitations of the plaintiffs without explicitly claiming copyright infringement.
Later in the complaint, the lawyers state, “Suno’s ravenous race to the bottom aims to make human creativity obsolete, coldly replicating without a license in seconds what takes years to learn, struggle with, maintain, and endlessly attempt to make better and perfect.”
A Suno spokesperson, Cat McCormack, told The Verge, “Suno exists to help people create new, original music, not to trade on anyone’s name or likeness, and we prohibit any unauthorized use of an artist’s work. To protect against this, we do not allow prompts for specific artists’ names and songs and work with third-party providers to screen uploaded audio files and lyrics for potential misuse. We are always working to strengthen our guardrails and we will continue to add new safeguards that protect artists and our users.”
This situation adds to the existing legal challenges Suno is currently navigating from Sony, UMG, Isbell, Reservoir Media, and others.
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