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According to The Paper, on June 24, local time, a group of companies including Universal Music Group (umg), Sony Music Entertainment (sony music entertainment) and Warner Records Inc. The record company officially filed a lawsuit against Suno and Audio, two giants in the field of artificial intelligence music production, accusing the two companies of illegally using their copyrighted music to train AI models.
China Business News reported that record companies believe that users of suno and audio can create elements from certain songs, such as singer Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Chrismas Is You" and James Brown's "I Got You" (i feel good)" and can generate vocals similar to those of singers such as Michael Jackson.
In the lawsuit, the record company showed some AI-generated songs to prove that Suno and Audio were using copyrighted music to train large models. The indictment against Suno also quoted Antonio Rodriguez, an investor in Suno, to explain that the investor knew that the company did not obtain the corresponding music license and believed that this was a risk that must be taken when investing. The record company asked the court to pay compensation for each song the defendant allegedly plagiarized. compensated up to US$150,000 for each song, and accused Suno of plagiarizing 662 songs and audio of 1,670 songs.
suno and audio are both popular music models this year. You can create original songs by directly inputting simple text and prompt words.
According to CCTV Finance, suno has cooperated with technology giant Microsoft and can be used through Microsoft’s AI assistant Copilot. It released its first product last year and claims more than 10 million people have used its tools to make music. In addition, suno recently announced that it has raised US$125 million in a new round of financing. As for
udio, it was founded by former Google researchers and was supported by a16z, a famous Silicon Valley venture capital institution. In April this year, the company raised US$10 million in funding. An AI music previously produced through audio also became popular on social media in the United States.
Recording Industry Association of America CEO Mitch Glazer said in a statement that the lawsuit is necessary to stop the blatant infringement of the two AI music companies, and it is also to ensure that humans can develop and generate music responsibly, ethically and legally. Important principles of AI.
Previously, industry insiders from AI startups pointed out in an interview with CNBC that currently lacks a clear boundary in copyright supervision in the field of generative AI startups.
Now many musicians are also calling for the formulation of new laws to protect music copyright. In the US state of Tennessee, lawmakers updated an old law to explicitly ban imitations of musicians' voices without permission.
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