Danish music rights group Koda said Tuesday that it was suing the American AI music platform Suno, accusing it of training its model for music creation on copyrighted songs.
Koda said Suno had “trained their AI model on Koda’s repertoire while concealing the scope and sources of the training data—failing to disclose what works were used and how.”
The group, which represents around 51,000 composers, authors and publishers, said it had evidence of the use of songs from famous Danish acts like Aqua and MØ among others.
“In all cases, Koda has concrete evidence that the copyright of each work has been infringed,” the group said.
It added that the music produced by Suno could mimic the originals, “putting them in direct competition with the very works exploited.”
“We are excited about what responsible AI can do for music,” Koda’s chief Gorm Arildsen said. “But innovation can’t be built on stolen goods.”
AI firms from industry leader OpenAI to music specialists like Udio and Suno have been accused by major record companies of using their songs to train artificial intelligence models to produce music.
Rights holders have demanded stricter limits on the AI developers’ activities, including transparency on what source material they have used and guarantees for their revenue.
The Recording Industry Association of America, a trade group, filed a lawsuit in June 2024 against both Udio and Suno.
AI firms often argue their work is covered by the American copyright loophole of “fair use,” which does not require rights holders’ consent.
Negotiations have also been initiated between the three major labels—Universal, Warner and Sony—and AI companies.
Universal and Udio on October 30 announced an agreement to launch a music creation platform in 2026.
Koda said it was also calling for “a clear, industry-wide standard” for demanding consent from creators, transparency and remuneration from tech companies.
According to Koda, at the current pace of AI development it could lead to a “historic” 28% revenue loss for the Danish music industry by 2030.
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