Suno Sued Again, Accused of Training Model on Mexican Music Catalog to Make Spanish AI Songs
A regional Mexican label and publisher claims its catalog helped Suno "capture a significant share of the Spanish language AI user market."
Suno, an AI music generation platform, is once again embroiled in a copyright infringement lawsuit, this time filed by Gerencia 360 Music, an independent regional Mexican record label and publisher. The complaint, filed on August 31, alleges that Suno's AI model was trained on Gerencia's catalog of regional Mexican hits to generate Spanish-language songs.
This is Gerencia's second lawsuit against Suno, following a string of similar cases brought by music rights holders, including major labels and individual artists. Gerencia's complaint states that their music was crucial for Suno to teach its model to create Spanish-language songs, as these works are among the most recognizable and commercially valuable in the history of Regional Mexican and Latin music.
If successful, the lawsuit could seek nearly $100 million in damages. Suno maintains that its AI training process is legal under copyright law's fair use principle, but the outcome remains uncertain as fair use is an untested legal question in the ongoing AI copyright lawsuits.
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