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Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment (Sony) want to update a lawsuit against the AI music-generation platform Suno. As AFROTECH™ previously reported, major record labels UMG and Sony, as well as Warner Music Group, accused Suno of “massive and ongoing infringement” in a lawsuit that states it “copied sound recordings from the labels ‘en masse and ingested them into its AI model.” Music Business Worldwide reported that the original complaint listed 560 copyrighted works in a June 2024 filing. As it relates to Suno’s actions, the lawsuit claimed that if there was no copyright violation, “Suno’s service would not be able to reproduce the convincing imitations of such a vast range of human musical expression at the quality that Suno touts,” according to Forbes. Suno CEO Mikey Shulman said in a statement at the time that the company “prize(s) originality” and said its technology is “designed to generate completely new outputs, not to memorize and regurgitate pre-existing...