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Company filingOctober 19, 2026Round Hill Music LP v. Suno, Inc.; Gerencia 360 Music, Inc. v. Suno, Inc. · N.D. Cal., Nos. 3:26-cv-08507-RFL and 3:26-cv-09248-RFL

Round Hill Music and Gerencia 360 Music drop web-scraping company Bright Data from their Suno training suits, leaving Suno as the only defendant in both cases

On Oct. 19, 2026, the plaintiffs in both related suits before Judge Rita Lin filed one-page notices under Rule 41(a)(1)(A)(i) voluntarily dismissing Bright Data Ltd. and Bright Data, Inc. without prejudice. Round Hill Music and its royalty funds sued Suno and Bright Data on Aug. 17, 2026, and Gerencia 360 Music, a regional Mexican label represented by the same lawyers (Richard Busch of Adams & Reese), followed on Aug. 31; the court related the two cases on Oct. 9. Bright Data is a web-data collection company. The notices give no reason for the dismissal and do not mention any settlement; because it is without prejudice, the plaintiffs could sue Bright Data again. The claims against Suno over the use of the plaintiffs' recordings and compositions to train its music models continue unchanged.

Notice of Voluntary Dismissal of Defendants Bright Data Ltd. and Bright Data, Inc., Round Hill Music LP v. Suno, Inc., N.D. Cal. 3:26-cv-08507, Dkt. 44 (Oct. 19, 2026; CourtListener) ↗Notice of Voluntary Dismissal of Defendants Bright Data Ltd. and Bright Data, Inc., Gerencia 360 Music, Inc. v. Suno, Inc., N.D. Cal. 3:26-cv-09248, Dkt. 40 (Oct. 19, 2026; CourtListener) ↗Judge Lin relates Gerencia 360 Music v. Suno to Round Hill Music v. Suno (ChatGPT Is Eating the World, Oct. 9, 2026) ↗

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