Universal and Sony Sue Suno Again Over 60,202 Songs After a Judge Forced Them Into a New Case

Universal and Sony just dragged Suno back into federal court over 60,202 songs they left out of the first fight.

The new complaint landed Friday in Massachusetts as case 1:26-cv-14275, The Next Web reported. The plaintiffs are UMG Recordings, Sony Music Entertainment, and related label entities. Warner is not on this one. Warner already signed a license, and the new papers call it a former plaintiff.

The labels first tried to tack about 61,000 more works onto the June 2024 case. On 18 August the judge said no, without prejudice: stuffing that many tracks onto the old docket would blow up the schedule. File a new case, the court said. That is what they did.

The counts are direct infringement for post-1972 recordings and for pre-1972 recordings protected under the Music Modernization Act, plus a DMCA claim that Suno stream-ripped YouTube audio. The labels want up to $150,000 per work for willful infringement, plus up to $2,500 for each alleged circumvention. Across 60,202 recordings that statutory ceiling runs past $9 billion. Nobody has ruled they are owed a dollar of it. Suno has not yet answered on the new docket.

Suno called the claims "fundamentally flawed on both the facts and the law," and said v6 was trained on licensed partner content plus user interactions. The labels treat those user interactions, and any distillation from older models, as a back door into the same unlicensed corpus. Those two stories do not agree on what v6 copied.

The same training-data fight already sits in Microsoft's internal "largest theft of labor" memos.