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AllegationOctober 20, 2026Poseidon Wave Media LLC v. Black Forest Labs Inc. · E.D.N.Y., No. 1:26-cv-06737

Music company Poseidon Wave Media sues Black Forest Labs, alleging its FLUX video models were trained on stream-ripped copies of 236 of its recordings and songs

Poseidon Wave Media, which is also suing Suno, filed a copyright suit in federal court in Brooklyn on Oct. 20, 2026 against Black Forest Labs Inc., the U.S. arm of the German developer of the FLUX image and video models. It says it owns 236 sound recordings and compositions covered by 164 registrations, and alleges that Black Forest Labs stream-ripped them, without a license, from services such as Spotify or YouTube to train FLUX, which since the FLUX.3 release in July 2026 generates video with audio. The complaint says it cannot yet name the exact sources. As evidence it describes 34 paid FLUX.3 prompts asking for a video with a song that sounds like a named track by its band The American Dollar, and says each output closely resembled that track. Besides copyright infringement it pleads DMCA section 1201 circumvention and state and federal trade-secret claims, and seeks statutory damages of up to $150,000 per work and an injunction. These are allegations; Black Forest Labs has not yet responded.

Docket, Poseidon Wave Media v. Black Forest Labs, E.D.N.Y. 1:26-cv-06737 (CourtListener) ↗Complaint, Dkt. 1, filed Oct. 20, 2026 (copy via ChatGPT Is Eating the World) ↗

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