Suno is facing yet another copyright infringement lawsuit, this time alleging its popular AI music model was trained on regional Mexican hits in order to generate Spanish-language songs. The legal complaint was filed Monday (Aug. 31) by Gerencia 360 Music, an independent regional Mexican record label and publisher. It’s the latest in a string of AI training lawsuits brought against Suno by music rightsholders, including the majors, indies and individual artists. Like other rightsholders, Gerencia alleges that Suno ripped its music from streaming services and then fed it into the training corpus for an AI model that now allows users to generate new songs with the click of a button. Monday’s lawsuit, however, specifically says Gerencia’s catalog was necessary for Suno to teach its model to create songs in Spanish. “Gerencia’s works are especially important to Suno because they are hugely popular Spanish language works, which Suno has misappropriate...
