{"id":2019908,"date":"2026-06-30T20:04:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T17:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2019908"},"modified":"2026-06-30T20:04:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T17:04:28","slug":"suno-faces-another-ai-training-copyright-lawsuit-from-production-music-firm-jamendo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2019908","title":{"rendered":"Suno Faces Another AI Training Copyright Lawsuit From Production Music Firm Jamendo"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tSuno has been sued again over the training data powering its successful AI music generator \u2014 this time by production music licensing library Jamendo.<\/p>\n

\n\tJamendo filed copyright infringement claims on Sunday (June 29) against Suno, which has been embroiled in high-stakes litigation with the major record labels for two years now. The AI music company, valued at $5.4 billion in its latest fundraise, reached a licensing deal with Warner Music Group (WMG) last year but is still fighting both Universal Music Group (UMG) and Sony in court.<\/p>\n

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    \n\tBelgium-based Jamendo sued tech giant Nvidia last week for allegedly training AI music models Fugatto and Audio Flamingo on 55,600 tracks in its music library, as well as curated metadata that tags those songs for genre, mood and instrumentation. Sunday\u2019s lawsuit, obtained by Billboard<\/em>, levels similar claims against Suno.<\/p>\n

    \n\t\u201cBy using the [Jamendo] dataset without authorization, Suno obtained substantial value, including immediate access to a large, organized and commercially useful music catalogue,\u201d write Jamendo\u2019s attorneys in the complaint. \u201cSuno also avoided the time, cost and effort required to independently source, clean, organize and validate comparable data.\u201d<\/p>\n

    \n\tThis 55,600-track dataset is publicly available on the developer platform GitHub as part of a research collaboration between Jamendo and Barcelona\u2019s Universitat Pompeu Fabra. The lawsuit alleges, however, that this dataset is only free for non-commercial academic purposes. Jamendo says a paid license is required for a company like Suno to train AI models on the data.<\/p>\n

    \n\tAccording to the complaint, Jamendo sought to initiate licensing discussions with Suno in September. The company allegedly sent Suno a \u20ac16 million ($18 million) invoice, broken down as \u20ac289 ($330) for each track in its dataset. \u00a0<\/p>\n

    \n\t\u201cSuno confirmed receipt of the invoice by October 3, 2025, but did not further respond to Jamendo\u2019s communications and did not pay the invoice,\u201d reads the lawsuit. Jamendo is now seeking at least \u20ac17.8 million ($20 million) in damages for copyright infringement and other civil claims.<\/p>\n

    Alexandre Saboundjian<\/strong>, CEO of Jamendo\u2019s owner Winamp Group, said in a Tuesday (June 30) statement that the Suno lawsuit \u201cmarks another important step in Jamendo\u2019s efforts to protect the rights of artists in an environment where artificial intelligence is transforming the music industry.\u201d<\/p>\n

    \n\t\u201cWe believe that innovation and respect for intellectual property must go hand in hand to ensure a sustainable ecosystem for creators, rights holders and the companies developing tomorrow\u2019s technologies,\u201d added Saboundjian.<\/p>\n

    \n\tSuno declined to comment on the claims. The AI firm has consistently been open about the fact that it trained its models on vast amounts of music from the internet without first buying licenses. It says this process should be free under the principle of fair use, a tenet of copyright law that allows for unlicensed material to be used for transformative purposes.<\/p>\n

    \n\tWhether AI training indeed falls under the umbrella of fair use is an unsettled legal question that\u2019s at the center of dozens of copyright lawsuits currently pending in courts across the country. This includes the ongoing claims against Suno by UMG and Sony, as well as cases brought against various other AI companies by publishers, writers, visual artists and movie studios.<\/p>\n

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Suno-logo-new-2025-billboard-1800.jpg?w=1024″] Trending on Billboard Suno has been sued again over the training data powering its successful AI music generator \u2014 this time by production music licensing library Jamendo. Jamendo filed copyright infringement claims on Sunday (June 29) against Suno, which has been embroiled in high-stakes litigation with the major record labels for two […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,226],"class_list":["post-2019908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-billboard-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2019908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2019908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2019908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2019908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}