Universal and Sony are suing Suno again, this time over 60,202 songs.
The labels filed a new complaint against the AI music company in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts on Friday, case number 1:26-cv-14275. It lists 60,202 sound recordings the labels say Suno used without a license. The filing follows an August ruling in the same court, where a judge told Suno that "the magnitude of the alleged infringement is not a defense." This is the second lawsuit the labels have brought against Suno, after an initial case filed in June 2024.
AI music generators are built by training on existing recordings, and the industry's defining legal fight is whether that counts as fair use or mass copying. A court willing to say scale doesn't excuse infringement removes one of the more convenient arguments AI companies have leaned on: that ingesting millions of songs is different in kind from copying one. That reasoning could echo well beyond Suno, into every AI company training on copyrighted catalogs at volume.
Filing a complaint that names 60,202 individual recordings isn't just legal strategy. It's the labels making sure nobody can call this a rounding error.