This ruling questions a specific defense Suno has leaned on in regard to how it engaged with YouTube

The Series B funding follows a year of licensing deals with music and gaming giants

Gives fans new ways to create, and artists and rightsholders greater control and compensation

The patents were developed by Music IP Holdings, which is supported by Universal Music Group

The music-generation model turns a single text prompt into a fully produced song

Alleges the AI companies scraped hundreds of its songs without permission

UMG and Merlin have also signed on to the new feature from Spotify

Suno alluded to models developed in partnership with the industry in a recent blog post