Suno Fights Back Against Indie Artist Class Action Suit

AI music generator Suno has filed a motion to dismiss a class action lawsuit filed by Anthony Justice and 5th Wheel Records in June 2025. The suit revolves around AI training on the music of independent artists.

Suno’s argument:

• Suno argues the class action “fails as a matter of law.”

• As per Music Business Worldwide, while the RIAA-led major label lawsuit against Suno is concerned only with the legality of AI training practices, Justice and other indie artists are arguing that specific songs generated by Suno’s AI “substantially copy their original recordings.”

• Suno claims if its AI learned from copyrighted songs, the outputs it generates are entirely new sounds that cannot infringe existing recordings under copyright law.

• Suno’s case relies on Section 114(b) of the Copyright Act, which states that the plaintiffs would need to allege the AI-generated output actually contained a ‘sample’ from the original “in the manner of a collage.”

• This, the filing states, is not how Suno’s tool works, as it generates new sounds rather than stitching together samples.

• It adds: “No Suno output contains anything like a ‘sample’ from a recording in the training set, so no Suno output can infringe the rights in anything in the training set, as a matter of law.”

Other moves:

• Germany’s GEMA collection society also filed a copyright lawsuit against Suno in January, adding to that filed by the RIAA.

• Regardless, Suno continues to develop its platform and launch new features.