{"id":143021,"date":"2026-08-18T00:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T00:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/143021\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T00:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T00:15:09","slug":"round-hill-files-1b-lawsuits-against-suno-anthropic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/143021\/","title":{"rendered":"Round Hill Files $1B Lawsuits Against Suno, Anthropic"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tIndependent music publisher Round Hill is suing Suno<\/a> and Anthropic<\/a> on claims of mass copyright infringement, alleging that the two AI companies scraped hundreds of the publisher\u2019s songs without permission to train their AI models. <\/p>\n

\n\tRound Hill marks just the latest major lawsuit for both Suno and Anthropic, who\u2019ve both been sued by the major record companies on similar claims. Suno, industry\u2019s biggest AI music generation platform, also faces a suit<\/a> from Universal Music Group and Sony Music Group (WMG also sued, though the company has since settled<\/a>) related to its use of copyright to create new AI-generated recordings. Anthropic, meanwhile faces suits from Universal Music Publishing, Abcko, Concord and BMG over the companies\u2019 songs\u2019 lyrics being used to train its AI agent Claude. <\/p>\n

\n\tRound Hill is a prominent music publisher whose copyrights include the Goo Goo Dolls\u2019 \u201cIris,\u201d Bonnie Tyler\u2019s \u201cTotal Eclipse of the Heart,\u201d the Kinks\u2019 \u201cLola\u201d and Dio\u2019s \u201cHoly Diver.\u201d The company provided a list of 500 songs that the defendants had infringed upon. Round Hill said in the suits that the company plans to \u201camend to list potentially ten thousand or more of their musical compositions,\u201d with those damages potentially exceeding $1 billion. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhile in other cases for copyright infringement, Defendant has waxed poetic about the necessity of progress and AI\u2019s value to society, there is simply no reason \u2014 other than rote expediency \u2014 to have that progress come at the cost of copyrights holders,\u201d prominent music attorney Richard Busch, representing Round Hill, wrote in the suits. <\/p>\n

\n\tRound Hill further argued that the latter \u201c\u2018expediency\u2019 arguments completely falter\u201d when taking into account Suno and Anthropic\u2019s significant cash valuations they\u2019ve earned while \u201cexploiting illicit copies of copyrighted works, including the Round Hill Works.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThere is simply nothing fair about a company using theft to build for purely commercial purposes a multi-billion dollar business while those from which they steal receive nothing,\u201d Round Hill said. <\/p>\n

\n\tReps for Anthropic and Suno didn\u2019t immediately respond to request for comment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Independent music publisher Round Hill is suing Suno and Anthropic on claims of mass copyright infringement, alleging that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[53,9169],"class_list":["post-143021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anthropic","tag-anthropic","tag-suno"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}