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AI companies to music labels: scraping copyrighted tracks on the internet to train algorithms is "fair use"
Suno and Udio were hit with separate copyright infringement lawsuits from music labels Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, and Sony Music Group on June 24.
The start-ups, both of which have hired international law firm Latham & Watkins LLP, don't deny that their neural networks have been scraping copyrighted music from the internet. Both Suno and Udio emphasized that samples of copyrighted music aren't stored as a library of pre-existing content in the neural networks of their AI models, "outputting a collage of 'samples' stitched together from existing recordings" when prompted by users. OpenAI is facing numerous lawsuits over these claims, while Perplexity was accused of ignoring the Robots Exclusion Protocol web standard to scrape areas of websites that operators do not want accessed by bots.
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