{"id":6141,"date":"2026-08-18T18:09:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T18:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=6141"},"modified":"2026-08-18T18:09:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T18:09:27","slug":"round-hill-music-sues-suno-anthropic-for-copyright-infringement-in-potentially-1-billion-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=6141","title":{"rendered":"Round Hill Music Sues Suno, Anthropic for Copyright Infringement in Potentially $1 Billion Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\tThe 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.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=6140\">Kevin Hart and Henry Cavill\u2019s Netflix Spy Comedy Adds Jason Isaacs, Justine Lupe and Aja Naomi King (EXCLUSIVE)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tRound Hill, which owns the rights to songs such as Bonnie Tyler\u2019s \u201cTotal Eclipse of the Heart, the Goo Goo Dolls\u2019 \u201cIris\u201d and more than 10,000 other compositions and recordings, claimed the two companies\u2019 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 \u201chundreds of millions of dollars and may ultimately approach or exceed $1 billion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cWe are not against artificial intelligence,\u201d\u00a0Round Hill CEO Josh Gruss said in a statement. \u201cWe are against the idea that you can build a business worth billions on top of other people\u2019s creative work and pay the creators nothing. Licensing isn\u2019t an obstacle to innovation \u2013 it is there to protect the legal owners of the raw material, their property.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRepresentatives for Suno and Anthropic did not respond to immediate requests for comment. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=6138\">\u2018Heated Rivalry\u2019 Sets Collector\u2019s Edition Blu-ray Release With Steamy Posters, Collectible Art Cards and Special Features<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe lawsuit marks the latest filed against the two companies by a music publisher or label, reflecting the legally murky waters these companies operate in as they train and power their models. Suno has been sued by all three of the major labels \u2013\u00a0Warner Music Group, Universal Music Group and Sony Music \u2013\u00a0though it settled with WMG last year. Suno last week struck a licensing agreement with the music company BMG, which itself sued Anthropic earlier this year for allegedly using its recordings to train its models in what it called a scheme of \u201cwidespread and systematic infringement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRound Hill Music is demanding a jury trial, signaling (at least for now) it has no intention to follow the other music companies in settling or striking a licensing agreement with the AI generators.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cThe question in these cases is not complicated,\u201d\u00a0said Richard S. Busch, the lawyer representing Round Hill Music who previously won the landmark music rights case against Robin Thicke\u2019s \u201cBlurred Lines\u201d\u00a0on behalf of the Marvin Gaye estate, in a sttaement.  Copyrighted works have been used to build multi-billion dollar businesses, and in the case of Anthropic a company now valued at more than a trillion dollars, while the songwriters and publishers who created the foundations of that value have received nothing. There is nothing fair about that use, and we look forward to making our arguments to the Court and in front of a jury.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=6135\">Bill Rasmussen, ESPN\u2019s Founder, Dies at 93<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The independent music publisher Round Hill Music sued Suno and Anthropic, accusing the two of infringing its copyright.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[4777,4778,1226],"class_list":["post-6141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biz","tag-anthropic","tag-round-hill-music","tag-suno"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Round Hill Music Sues Suno, Anthropic for Copyright Infringement in Potentially $1 Billion Lawsuit - 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