{"id":153796,"date":"2025-11-26T00:43:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T00:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/153796\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T00:43:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T00:43:11","slug":"suno-partners-with-warner-music-group-after-lawsuit-settlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/153796\/","title":{"rendered":"Suno Partners With Warner Music Group After Lawsuit Settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tIn the strongest sign yet that the world\u2019s biggest record labels are embracing AI, leading AI-music platform Suno<\/a> announced <\/a>Tuesday that it has settled Warner Music Group<\/a>\u2018s lawsuit over the use of its songs in Suno\u2019s training data, and Suno and WMG are partnering on \u201cnext-generation licensed AI music.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThis landmark pact with Suno is a victory for the creative community that benefits everyone,\u201d Robert Kyncl, CEO of Warner Music Group, said in a statement. \u201cWith Suno rapidly scaling, both in users and monetization, we\u2019ve seized this opportunity to shape models that expand revenue and deliver new fan experiences. AI becomes pro-artist when it adheres to our principles: committing to licensed models, reflecting the value of music on and off platform, and providing artists and songwriters with an opt-in for the use of their name, image, likeness, voice and compositions in new AI songs.\u201d The deal follows Suno\u2019s announcement last week of a $250 million funding round.<\/p>\n

\n\tSuno CEO Mikey Shulman \u2014 whose company <\/a>says it\u2019s attracted 100 million users, and is the engine behind most viral AI music<\/a> \u2014\u00a0called the deal \u201ca paradigm shift in how music is made, consumed, experienced and shared.\u201d In a blog post addressed to Suno\u2019s user community, he emphasized that Suno\u2019s existing functioning \u2014\u00a0which includes the creation of songs from written prompts and uploaded audio \u2014\u00a0will continue. \u201cYou\u2019ll still be able to create original songs the way you love today,\u201d he wrote. \u201cOur core experience remains focused on giving everyone access to powerful music creation.\u201d He promised that even higher quality music-creation models are coming, trained on licensed music from WMG \u2014 it\u2019s unclear whether artists will be allowed to opt out of inclusion in that training data.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn June 2024, Warner Music Group joined Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment in filing lawsuits against both Suno and its much smaller rival Udio, accusing the AI companies of mass copyright infringement. The labels alleged that both platforms had trained their models on vast troves of copyrighted recordings without permission \u2014 a practice the AI companies defended as fair use. Universal Music Group settled <\/a>with Udio in late October, followed by Warner\u2019s own settlement with Udio last week.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe Music Artists Coalition, a nonprofit founded by legendary artist manager Irving Azoff, has cautiously welcomed the recent wave of AI deals while raising pointed questions about their terms. \u201cWe\u2019ve seen this before \u2014 everyone talks about \u2018partnership,\u2019 but artists end up on the sidelines with scraps,\u201d Azoff said in a statement following the Universal-Udio settlement last month. \u201cArtists must have creative control, fair compensation, and clarity about deals being done based on their catalogs.\u201d (The Music Artists Coalition did not immediately return Rolling Stone\u2018s request for comment on the Suno-WMG deal.)<\/p>\n

\n\tUdio\u2019s deal with Universal meant that users would no longer be able to download their creations from the platform \u2014\u00a0which led to an outcry from users \u2014 but Suno reached more favorable terms with WMG:\u00a0Downloads will continue for paid users, subject to a monthly limit to be announced. (Suno Studio, aimed at power users, will continue to have unlimited downloads.)\u00a0\u201cWe know being able to download the songs you make in Suno is very important to the Suno community, and that functionality isn\u2019t going away,\u201d Shulman wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Suno-WMG deal will also introduce what Suno describes as \u201cnew experiences for fan engagement,\u201d allowing users to create content featuring participating Warner artists\u2019 voices, compositions, and likenesses. Artists and songwriters will be able to decide whether to opt in, according to both companies. <\/p>\n

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\n\tAs part of the deal, Suno acquired the concert-discovery platform Songkick from WMG \u2014 the idea, the company\u2019s press release says, is to bring \u201ctogether the power of interactive music with live performance.\u201d\u00a0Neither company disclosed financial terms of the settlement or the ongoing partnership.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the end, Shulman promised Suno users,\u00a0\u201cWe\u2019re heading towards a world where people don\u2019t just press play \u2014 they play with their music.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the strongest sign yet that the world\u2019s biggest record labels are embracing AI, leading AI-music platform Suno…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,363,364,111,139,69,79879,145,96938],"class_list":["post-153796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-suno","tag-technology","tag-warner-music-group"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}