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Anthropic, Suno Sued for Unlawfully Using Songs by Madonna, Johnny Cash, Joni Mitchell

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Anthropic, Suno Sued for Unlawfully Using Songs by Madonna, Johnny Cash, Joni Mitchell

Companies are accused of training their AI models using copyrighted music and lyrics.

The Man in Black couldn’t have imagined this. AI companies Suno and Anthropic face a combined $338 million in lawsuits for allegedly using songs and lyrics by Madonna, Johnny Cash and Joni Mitchell to train their artificial intelligence systems.

Reservoir Media Management, a music rights company, filed two separate lawsuits on Oct. 21. In one of them, Reservoir accuses Suno of scraping 1,050 copyrighted songs — including Cash’s Ring of Fire, Mitchell’s Both Sides Now and Madonna’s Papa Don’t Preach. Suno is a platform where users can generate an AI song using only a text prompt.

In the other lawsuit, Reservoir accuses Anthropic of using copyrighted lyrics from 853 songs to train its Claude family of AI models. Some of the songs mentioned in that lawsuit include Mitchell’s Big Yellow Taxi, Billy Strayhorn’s Lush Life and Evanescence‘s Bring Me to Life.

“We disagree with the allegations and intend to defend this case vigorously,” a representative for Anthropic told Billboard.

Representatives for Suno and Anthropic didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.

Reservoir seeks $186.4 million in damages from Suno and $151.4 million from Anthropic. Both lawsuits accuse the companies of copyright infringement, circumventing restrictions such as logins and paywalls and stripping song credits of title, writer and publisher data.

Anthropic was also sued last week for violating copyright for reportedly using 274 Elvis Presley songs to train Claude. 5 billion settlement over allegations that it trained its AI on millions of pirated books.


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