Sony and UMG Sue Suno Again Over New Model

Sony and Universal Music Group have again sued AI music company Suno, claiming its new v6 model still infringes their copyrights because it is trained on user outputs from previous models, which were themselves trained on unlicensed music scraped from YouTube and other sources. The labels, notable holdouts who did not sign a licensing deal with Suno, accuse the company of 'model laundering,' saying that training a new model on the output of an infringing model does not eliminate the infringement but launders it.

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