Overview
- Suno announced on Wednesday that it reached a global licensing deal with BMG that covers BMG’s recorded and publishing repertoire and explicitly covers songs BMG says were used to train Suno’s earlier models.
- Under the agreement BMG will drop claims over Suno’s prior training use and Suno will pay artists who choose to opt in to let the service imitate their voices or otherwise participate.
- The company said it will roll out label‑backed models built with label approval, add audio watermarking and fingerprinting to generated tracks, and limit downloads by subscription tier while offering a vinyl‑pressing service that the company lists as coming soon.
- Legal risk remains: a Munich Regional Court recently ruled that Suno illegally ingested copyrighted works for training and Universal Music Group and Sony continue active lawsuits against the company.
- Suno’s moves come after a November 2025 breach and mid‑July leaks of ingestion logs that showed large‑scale scraping of online music, a combination that has sharpened industry pressure and could make label settlements the central path to commercial legitimacy.