Round Hill Music Sues Suno, Anthropic for Copyright Infringement, Seeking Up to $1 Billion in Damages
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. Round Hill, which owns the rights to songs such as Bonnie Tyler’s “Total Eclipse of the Heart, the Goo Goo Dolls’ “Iris” and more than 10,000 other compositions and recordings, claimed the two companies’ decision to lift the recordings violated the Copyright Act through its scraping.
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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. Round Hill, which owns the rights to songs such as Bonnie Tyler’s “Total Eclipse of the Heart, the Goo Goo Dolls’ “Iris” and more than 10,000 other compositions and recordings, claimed the two companies’ decision to lift the recordings violated the Copyright Act through its scraping. It listed 500 songs it alleged were part of the scraping, though promised that the complaint would be amended to reflect at least 10,000 songs pulled without permission. Such violations, it wrote, would demand damages in the “hundreds of millions of dollars and may ultimately approach or exceed $1 billion.” “We are not against artificial intelligence,” Round Hill CEO Josh Gruss said in a statement.
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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. Round Hill, which owns the rights to songs such as Bonnie Tyler’s “Total Eclipse of the Heart, the Goo Goo Dolls’ “Iris” and more than 10,000 other compositions and recordings, claimed the two companies’ decision to lift the recordings violated the Copyright Act through its scraping.
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Round Hill Music Sues Suno, Anthropic for Copyright Infringement, Seeking Up to $1 Billion in Damages
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