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\n\tThe American Federation of Musicians is suing major record companies Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group over the labels\u2019 recent moves to settle their lawsuits with AI music generators Suno and Udio, arguing that the settlements\u2019 benefits aren\u2019t reaching the musicians themselves. <\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cWhile the Defendants protected their own interests and created a significant source of new revenue with the retrospective settlements and prospective licenses, they have refused to compensate the musicians whose work \u2013 created with their own instruments and through their talent, creativity, and hard work \u2013 is fed into AI machines for profit,\u201d the AFM said in the complaint filed in federal court on Friday. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe AFM\u2019s lawsuit comes months after UMG and WMG reached settlements with Udio and Suno last fall. UMG, the world\u2019s largest music company, struck the first deal, announcing a settlement and partnership with Udio in late October of 2025. WMG came after, announcing a partnership of its own with Udio in mid-November. Weeks after that, WMG became the first (and so far the only) major label to settle with Suno.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe \u201cbig three\u201d record companies, which includes Sony Music Group alongside UMG and WMG, first sued Suno and Udio in 2024, accusing that the AI music generators of massive copyright infringement by training their models on thousands of iconic songs without permission. Sony is the lone major music company that hasn\u2019t settled with either AI company. <\/p>\n

\n\tIn settling with Suno and Udio, the AFM alleged that UMG and WMG \u201care allowing those same AI companies to use the work of AFM-represented musicians to do exactly what they warned about: Training AI models to generate supposedly \u2018new\u2019 sound recordings derived from music ingested into their models.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe AFM further stated that with the settlements, UMG and WMG received significant compensation from the AI companies for past copyright violations, \u201clicensed substantial portions of their music catalogs to the AI companies to train their models on both a retroactive and prospective basis, and will earn further revenue on an ongoing basis from the AI companies.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDefendants have failed to share in the settlement proceeds and future revenue with those same artists whose music was copied, used for training, and incorporated into the development of the AI models and platforms now being commercially exploited as a new use of the performances embodied in those recordings, despite their self-congratulatory claims of protecting those same artists,\u201d the AFM said. <\/p>\n

\n\tNeither UMG nor WMG immediately responded to request for comment. <\/p>\n

\n\tAI music remains the hottest issue in the industry at the moment, as the business looks with caution on how to adopt AI while protecting its copyrights. One large looming question among stakeholders is how musicians themselves would actually get paid from their music being used to train the new songs. By the AFM\u2019s assertion, that\u2019s yet to happen at all.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile the likes of Suno and Udio are controversial in the business as songs have been used without permission and AI slop songs continue to flood streaming services, they\u2019re growing more popular and are courting significant investment. Suno, the most prominent AI music platform in the business, announced earlier this week that it closed a $400 million funding round that valued the company at $5.4 billion. <\/p>\n

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