Round Hill sues Suno and Anthropic over AI training on songs
The publisher says the cases could expand to 10,000 compositions and more than $1 billion in damages
Round Hill Music filed copyright suits against Suno and Anthropic on Monday, accusing the AI companies of using hundreds of its songs without permission to train their models. The publisher said the cases could expand to cover 10,000 or more compositions, with damages potentially exceeding $1 billion.
Round Hill said it has already identified 500 songs it believes were infringed, including "Iris" by the Goo Goo Dolls, "Total Eclipse of the Heart" by Bonnie Tyler and "I Got You (I Feel Good)" by James Brown.
Chief executive Josh Gruss said Round Hill is not opposed to artificial intelligence, but to building a multibillion-dollar business on creative work without paying the creators. As covered in July, Anthropic separately won final approval for a $1.5 billion books settlement over pirated works used to train Claude.
Suno has already been sued by all three major music companies, while Anthropic faces multiple lawsuits from publishers including Universal Music Publishing, ABKCO, Concord and BMG over lyrics allegedly used to train Claude.
Round Hill says it intends to take the cases to trial.