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AllegationOctober 21, 2026Reservoir Media Management, Inc. v. Suno, Inc. · N.D. Cal., No. 3:26-cv-12305

Reservoir also sues Suno over 1,050 compositions, alleging stream-ripping from YouTube with YT-DLP and scraping through Bright Data tools

On the same day as its suit against Anthropic, Reservoir and its UK affiliates sued Suno in the Northern District of California over 1,050 compositions. The complaint cites Suno's own answer in the labels' Massachusetts case, which said its training data includes essentially all music files of reasonable quality on the open internet. It alleges that Suno got the works by stream-ripping YouTube with YT-DL and YT-DLP to defeat its rolling-cipher encryption, and by scraping licensed streaming and lyrics platforms using Bright Data proxies and unblocking tools that bypassed logins, paywalls and bot defenses and dropped CMI. It pleads copyright infringement, DMCA section 1201 circumvention and section 1202 CMI removal, and seeks an accounting of all training data and scraping. Press reports put the damages claimed at about $186 million. These are allegations; Suno has not yet responded.

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