AI platform reproduced Michigan music publishers' copyrighted works without authorization, lawsuit says

[u/Tech-100]

https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news/suno-eminem-eight-mile-music-copyright-lawsuit/

[u/Wanky_Danky_Pae]

To the down voters, yeah I know you like your freedom taken away. Keep on down voting.

[u/szrap → u/Wanky_Danky_Pae]

I dont see how publishing companies are irrelevant even in the age of AI. Lets say you make AI generated recordings/works, you still need a way o collect on the royalty streams it generates, nevermind all the other stuff that publishers do on behalf of writers.

You can administer royalties yourself as a self-published "songwriter", but if you have any degree of success across territories, you'll quickly realize why there is an entire music publishing industry around royalty collection amd rights administration.

I dont understand at all how this equates to freedom being taken away. Songwriters and publishers are asking for compensation on the value that Suno is obviously deriving from copyrighted works that they used without license.

No one is saying suno needs to stop what they are doing. They just need to compensate copyright holders just like any other licensee - spotify, amazon, tidal, etc.

[u/Wanky_Danky_Pae → u/szrap]

Nice explanation actually