AI Legal Analysis: What Book Copyright Rulings Mean for Music Lawsuits – Billboard

While the first copyright rulings have come out on the side of AI platforms, this is hardly a death knell for the music giants’ lawsuits against Suno, Udio and Anthropic, legal experts say.  Getty Images Two recent court decisions struck a blow for book authors suing generative AI platforms on copyright grounds, with judges concluding that training large language models (LLM) on unlicensed books is “transformative” and thus constitutes “fair use.” While that left many to question whether music companies’ own infringement lawsuits are similarly doomed, legal experts say it’s far from clear that this same reasoning will apply to the music industry — and the rulings might even provide a roadmap for the labels and music publishers to strengthen their cases. The court opinions on book copyrights — by two California federal judges who used different reasoning, but arrived at the same conclusion, to end authors’ claims against Anthropic and Meta — sent shockwaves among stakeholders in the debate over generative AI, since they were the first to rule on the issue of fair use. They also seemed to bode poorly for the labels and music publishers suing Anthropic and the AI platforms Suno and Udio for training their
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