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🚨 Sony Just Sued Udio Again — This Time Over 30,000 Songs

Plus: Universal and Warner already settled and signed licensing deals, and a landmark verdict on AI-trained music lands this Friday.

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🚨 30,000 Songs, One Lawsuit: Sony Music says Udio trained its AI on tracks from Beyoncé, Harry Styles, and Elvis Presley — without permission.

🤝 The Other Two Already Folded: Universal and Warner both settled with Udio and are launching licensed AI music platforms instead.

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🔥 BREAKING

Sony Music filed a new lawsuit against AI music generator Udio, alleging the startup copied more than 30,000 tracks — including songs from Beyoncé, Harry Styles, and Elvis Presley — scraped directly from YouTube to train its models. Sony says discovery from an earlier case turned up the number, and it's not backing off: "This case is about ensuring that copyright continues to incentivize human invention" the label stated.

⚡️ Why it matters: Universal and Warner both already settled with Udio and are launching their own licensed AI music platforms with it — meaning Udio could have simply paid for the same songs Sony says it stole. Sony is now the last major label still fighting instead of licensing, and how this plays out will likely set the price tag every AI music company pays going forward.

🔎 Quick AI Highlights

🤝 Two Down, One Still Fighting — Universal settled with Udio in October, Warner followed shortly after — both now building licensed AI platforms instead of suing. Sony is the last holdout.

⚖️ Friday's Verdict Could Set the Global Standard — A Munich court rules on GEMA v. Suno this Friday, July 31 — one of the first real court verdicts anywhere on whether training AI on copyrighted music is legal.

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📣 July 31: The GEMA v. Suno ruling lands in Munich — the first major court decision on AI music training.

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