https://wearethemusicmakers.co/latest Music tech and AI in music: the news that matters, what we think about it, and a directory of the tools. en-us Mon, 26 Oct 2026 12:30:00 GMT https://wearethemusicmakers.co/learn/ai-music-class-actions-tracker https://wearethemusicmakers.co/learn/ai-music-class-actions-tracker A living table of the six proposed class actions that musicians have brought against Suno, Udio and Google, with court, filing date, procedural stage, last development we could confirm, source and the date we read it. No class has been certified in any of them, so no musician is yet a class member. Mon, 26 Oct 2026 12:30:00 GMT We are the music makers legallawsuitsclass-actionai-musicartist-rightsindependent-artistssunoudioformat-tracker https://wearethemusicmakers.co/learn/ai-music-lawsuits-explained https://wearethemusicmakers.co/learn/ai-music-lawsuits-explained Labels, publishers and collecting societies have sued Suno, Udio and Anthropic, and independent artists have filed class actions of their own. This page lists 23 major lawsuits, in 21 rows, with their status as of 23 Oct 2026, explains the four legal questions they turn on, and sets out what each outcome would mean for independent musicians. Fri, 23 Oct 2026 06:30:00 GMT We are the music makers legallawsuitscopyrightai-musicartist-rightssunoudio https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/10/concord-v-anthropic-fair-use-hearing-lyrics https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/10/concord-v-anthropic-fair-use-hearing-lyrics Music publishers and Anthropic argued cross-motions for summary judgment over Claude and song lyrics on 21 Oct 2026, with no ruling yet. The publishers are testing "market dilution", the theory that AI-written lyrics compete with human songwriters, which one 2025 ruling dismissed and another said could win. Thu, 22 Oct 2026 03:30:00 GMT We are the music makers aicopyrightlawsuitssongwritersartist-rights https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/09/ai-training-fair-use-bartz-kadrey-music https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/09/ai-training-fair-use-bartz-kadrey-music Two US judges ruled in June 2025 that training language models on books was fair use, but only on the records in front of them, and one said plainly that most such copying will likely be illegal. Music cases turn on market harm, and that is where songwriters and labels have a stronger hand than the authors did. Wed, 09 Sep 2026 04:30:00 GMT We are the music makers aifair-usecopyrightai-musiclawsuits https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/08/jason-isbell-suno-class-action-publicity-rights https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/08/jason-isbell-suno-class-action-publicity-rights Jason Isbell, David Lowery, Guy Forsyth and Eduardo Calle have sued Suno under state publicity laws and Illinois' biometric privacy law, not copyright. They say Suno's model knows musicians by name and voice. If the theory holds, it gives artists who don't own their masters a claim of their own, though as drafted it favours the famous. Mon, 31 Aug 2026 05:30:00 GMT We are the music makers artist-rightssunoright-of-publicityai-musiclawsuits https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2025/07/lehrman-v-lovo-ai-voice-clones-new-york-publicity-law https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2025/07/lehrman-v-lovo-ai-voice-clones-new-york-publicity-law A federal judge in Manhattan has let two voice actors pursue New York publicity, consumer-protection and contract claims against Lovo, the AI voice company they say cloned them, while dismissing most of their trademark and copyright claims. This was a ruling on a motion to dismiss, not a win at trial. Its reasoning still matters to singers: in this court's view, copyright in a recording doesn't protect the voice on it, but New York's civil rights law does. Thu, 10 Jul 2025 04:30:00 GMT We are the music makers artist-rightsaivoice-cloningright-of-publicitylawsuits