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  1. 2026

    Round Hill Music sues Suno and Anthropic for copyright infringement

    Lawsuit filed

    Round Hill Music, an independent music publisher based in Nashville, filed two copyright infringement lawsuits in federal court in California against AI music generator Suno and AI company Anthropic. The publisher alleged that both firms scraped and used more than 500 of its copyrighted songs to train their AI models without authorization, license, or compensation. Round Hill Music stated that it intends to take both cases to a jury rather than negotiate a settlement.

    Nashville-based independent music publisher Round Hill Music filed two copyright infringement lawsuits in federal court in California on August 17 against AI music generator Suno and AI company Anthropic, alleging both firms scraped and used more than 500 of its copyrighted songs to train their AI models without authorization, license, or compensation. Round Hill said it intends to take both cases to a jury rather than negotiate a settlement.

    Stated objective. We are not against artificial intelligence. We are against the idea that you can build a business worth billions on top of other people's creative work and pay the creators nothing.

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    • The independent music publisher Round Hill Music sued Suno and Anthropic, accusing the two AI companies in a federal court in California of infringing its copyright by illegally scraping hundreds of its songs to train their models without permission.
    • The cases, filed in federal court in California on August 17, target two legally distinct AI business models — and the distinction matters more than it might appear.
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