PayAuthorscom

News

AI copyright news, graded by source

Court rulings, company filings and allegations in the copyright cases against AI companies and pirate libraries, over books, articles, music, images, video and code. Checked for new filings every three hours; items are posted after review, so some appear later. Get these by e-mail · Court filings, free to read

Each item is graded by its source: a court’s ruling or order; a company’s own filing about itself; a defendant’s filing arguing its side; a plaintiffs’ filing; the claims in a complaint (allegation); or press reporting.

What the labels mean

Get these updates by e-mail

For all news.

How the e-mails work

Uses the search, kind and company you set above (not the month or sort). As we post means within about 15 minutes of a new item; digests go out in the morning, U.S. Central time, weekly on Mondays, and only when something new matches. Updates start right away, and every e-mail has a one-click unsubscribe. If you tick Catch me up, the earlier items that match also come two a day, oldest first, each morning until you are up to date; you can stop that alone from any e-mail. Someone you invite gets one e-mail asking them to accept, and nothing more unless they do; we don’t tell them who invited them. Privacy.

AllegationSeptember 18, 2026UMG Recordings, Inc. v. Suno, Inc. (second action) · D. Mass., No. 1:26-cv-14275 (Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV)

Universal and Sony labels file a second suit against Suno over 60,202 more sound recordings, after the judge said the works belonged in a parallel case rather than an amendment

UMG Recordings, Capitol Records, Sony Music Entertainment and nine Sony affiliates filed a new complaint against Suno on Sept. 18, 2026, asserting 60,202 sound recordings listed in an exhibit. The labels say the works were identified in discovery in their June 2024 case after they got access to Suno's training data, and that the first complaint named only an illustrative 560 recordings because Suno would not say what it trained on. They allege Suno copied the recordings to train its models and obtained many of them by stream-ripping YouTube with tools that bypass the site's rolling-cipher protection. The complaint pleads direct infringement of post-1972 recordings, direct infringement of pre-1972 recordings, and circumvention under 17 U.S.C. 1201(a). The labels quote Suno's 2024 answer that its model was built by showing it tens of millions of recordings that presumably included theirs, and cite a Deezer report that AI tracks exceeded half of daily new uploads in July 2026. The filing follows Judge Saylor's Aug. 18, 2026 order denying leave to add 61,026 works to the original case and suggesting a separate, related suit. The new case was assigned to Judge Saylor.

Complaint, Dkt. 1 (RECAP) ↗Memorandum and Order on Second Motion to Amend, D. Mass. No. 1:24-cv-11611, Dkt. 272 (RECAP) ↗

Loading the rest of the news…

What the labels mean

Every item says what kind of source it rests on. A court ruling or order is the court's own statement. A company filing is what a defendant says about itself. A government filing is a statement by a government agency that is not a party to the case, such as a statement of interest; it is the government's position, not a ruling. An allegation is what a complaint or motion claims and has not been decided. Reported means press reporting we have not confirmed from the primary document. Summaries are our own; follow the links for the source.

This page is general information, not legal advice. An allegation is not a finding. Whether any of this matters for a particular work or claim is a question for a lawyer.