Here are the 30,000 songs Sony is suing Udio’s AI music generator over
Songs from Beyoncé, Britney Spears, Johnny Cash, Harry Styles, and many more are on the list.
Songs from Beyoncé, Britney Spears, Johnny Cash, Harry Styles, and many more are on the list.
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Sony Music Entertainment has filed another lawsuit against Udio, accusing the AI music generator of infringing the copyright of
on Monday, claims that this list represents “only a small portion of Plaintiffs’ works that Udio infringed,” as
In 2024, Sony, along with Universal Music Group and Warner Records,
and the AI music-maker Suno. After gaining access to Udio’s training data through discovery, Sony claims it identified additional songs using an “audio fingerprinting” technique. Sony filed a request to
that Udio allegedly “copied and ingested into its generative AI models,” but a
the company’s motion, leaving the scope of the original lawsuit at 333 works.
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Sony has now made the more than 30,000 songs the subject of its new lawsuit, which the company says it could expand. It claims Udio “admitted that its generative AI models were ‘constructed by showing the program a vast amount of different kinds of sound recordings,’” including from YouTube.
have since settled with Udio and are now partnering with the company as the
You can read the full list of songs Sony is suing Udio over
. The company is asking to block Udio from infringing its works, as well as for up to $150,000 per work infringed.
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