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AI’s Most Ambitious Music Generators Accused of ‘Massive’ Infringement In New Lawsuit

The Recording Industry of America sued the AI music generators Suno and Udio on allegations that they infringed millions of songs for their tech.

UMG and WMG partnered with YouTube last year on the AI text-to-music generator DreamTrack, which featured music from artists including Charli XCX, Demi Lovato and Charlie Puth, among others. Warner Music Nashville, meanwhile, released the song “Where That Came From,” which featured the AI-generated vocals of country legend Randy Travis, who lost his ability to sing after a near-fatal stroke over a decade ago. “These are straightforward cases of copyright infringement involving unlicensed copying of sound recordings on a massive scale,” the RIAA’s Chief Legal Officer Ken Doroshow said in a statement monday.

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