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 04:30:00 GMT https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/10/suno-shared-workspaces-custom-models-studio-updates https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/10/suno-shared-workspaces-custom-models-studio-updates Suno now lets teams share song libraries in Workspaces and lets Premier users share custom models trained on their own uploads, a week after Studio got tighter timing, clip stretching and fade curves. The tools point towards a collaborative studio. Suno's terms say nothing about who owns a shared model or the songs made with it. Mon, 26 Oct 2026 04:30:00 GMT We are the music makers aiai-musicsunocollaborationdaw 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/suno-mlc-distrokid-subpoenas-data-war https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/10/suno-mlc-distrokid-subpoenas-data-war In the same week, Suno asked a Nashville court to force the MLC to hand over years of streaming data, and UMG and Sony asked a Manhattan court to force DistroKid to hand over its AI-detection numbers. Both sides want the data that will decide whether AI music has harmed the market. The artists whose plays and uploads fill those tables can't see any of it. Fri, 23 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMT We are the music makers industrysunodistrokidmlcfair-useai-music https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/10/suno-admits-kept-training-recordings-v6-user-creations https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/10/suno-admits-kept-training-recordings-v6-user-creations In its answer to Universal and Sony's second lawsuit, Suno admits it has not deleted all the recordings it trained on, and repeats that v6 learned from "creations and preference signals" from its community. That makes Suno's own users part of the training pipeline the labels call laundering, under a licence they can't take back. Fri, 23 Oct 2026 05:30:00 GMT We are the music makers aiai-musicsunocopyrighttraining-data https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/10/reservoir-sues-suno-anthropic-licensing-deals-evidence https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/10/reservoir-sues-suno-anthropic-licensing-deals-evidence Reservoir Media has sued Suno over 1,050 songs and Anthropic over 853, asking for about $338 million in total. Its sharpest argument is that Suno's deals with Warner, BMG and Believe prove a market for training licences exists. That helps rights owners win; whether it pays songwriters is a separate question. Wed, 21 Oct 2026 05:30:00 GMT We are the music makers legalsunoanthropicai-musicartist-rights https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/10/ai-music-licence-anatomy-udio-suno-settlements https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/10/ai-music-licence-anatomy-udio-suno-settlements Universal and Warner settled with Udio, and Warner with Suno, on a shared template: retrain on licensed music, let artists opt in their voice and likeness, and control what leaves the platform. The public terms don't say what any of it costs, how revenue is split, or how money reaches an individual artist. Wed, 14 Oct 2026 05:30:00 GMT We are the music makers aiai-musicsunoudiolicensingartist-rights https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/10/suno-songkick-controller-live-music https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/10/suno-songkick-controller-live-music Suno has hired Ticketmaster's Michael Chua to run a new "Live Experiences" team that includes Songkick, whose user data Suno now controls. An AI company that is still being sued by two major labels now owns a map of which human artists fans want to see live, and where those fans are. Artists should know what that data can be used for. Fri, 09 Oct 2026 05:30:00 GMT We are the music makers industrysunosongkicklive-musicfan-dataai-music https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/10/italy-agcm-suno-terms-of-service https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/10/italy-agcm-suno-terms-of-service Italy's competition and consumer authority (AGCM) has opened an unfair-terms investigation into Suno, case CV278. It flags six groups of clauses, including a moral-rights waiver, a vague copyright licence, unilateral price and service changes, and US arbitration. Nothing has been found illegal yet, but these are the clauses most creators never read. Tue, 06 Oct 2026 05:30:00 GMT We are the music makers artist-rightssunoterms-of-serviceconsumer-lawitalyai-music https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/10/suno-speech-beta-voiceover-narration https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/10/suno-speech-beta-voiceover-narration Suno opened a public beta of Speech on 1 Oct 2026, a model that generates a spoken voice and an original score as one track. It is the company's first speech product since Bark, and it points straight at narration, meditation and voiceover, the steady work that pays many musicians' and voice actors' bills. Suno hasn't said where the voices come from. Thu, 01 Oct 2026 03:30:00 GMT We are the music makers releasessunoai-musicvoiceartist-rights https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/09/suno-20-downloads-cap-producers https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/09/suno-20-downloads-cap-producers From 3 September 2026, Suno Pro allows 20 song downloads a month and Premier 60, while free accounts that existed before then get seven lifetime trial downloads with no commercial rights. Listening stays unlimited; leaving the platform is what's metered. For producers who use Suno as one tool inside a DAW, that turns auditioning ideas into rationing, and it pulls the finishing work into Suno's own Studio. Wed, 23 Sep 2026 05:30:00 GMT We are the music makers workflowssunoai-music https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/09/suno-studio-teaches-mixing-no-plugin-support https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/09/suno-studio-teaches-mixing-no-plugin-support Suno has started publishing production lessons, beginning with compression, for users of Studio, its browser DAW. The lessons are good. The catch is that Studio is Premier-only and won't load VST or AU plugins, so the skills are taught inside a closed toolchain. Tue, 22 Sep 2026 03:30:00 GMT We are the music makers workflowssunoai-musicdaw https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/09/suno-v6-licensed-era https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/09/suno-v6-licensed-era Suno's v6, launched on 9 Sep 2026, is the first model it built with Warner, BMG and Believe, and every older model was retired. The labels have deals; the opt-in products that would pay individual artists don't exist yet. And people who had built a sound on v5.5 lost the instrument they were playing. Wed, 09 Sep 2026 05:30:00 GMT We are the music makers releasessunoai-musiclicensing https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/09/believe-tunecore-blocked-suno-then-distributed-it https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/09/believe-tunecore-blocked-suno-then-distributed-it In April, Believe called Suno a "pirate studio" and said its detector could spot Suno tracks with 99% reliability. On 8 Sep 2026 it signed a global partnership to distribute music from Suno's new licensed model. The output didn't change category because of the technology. It changed because of a contract artists weren't party to. Tue, 08 Sep 2026 03:30:00 GMT We are the music makers industrydistributionai-musicsunobelieve 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/2026/07/gema-suno-munich-ruling-memorisation https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/07/gema-suno-munich-ruling-memorisation A Munich court has largely ruled for GEMA against Suno over six songs, finding they were memorised inside Suno's v3.5 and v4 models and that this is copying. It also applied US fair use to Suno's US training and rejected it. The ruling isn't final, and its limits matter as much as the headline. Fri, 31 Jul 2026 05:30:00 GMT We are the music makers legalsunogemaai-musicartist-rightscopyright https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/06/xania-monet-label-jv-trademark-lawsuit https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/06/xania-monet-label-jv-trademark-lawsuit A trademark suit filed in Connecticut on 10 June names Hallwood Media, Xania Monet creator Telisha Jones and a company called TJM Inc. It comes months after Monet's manager launched an AI-and-human label venture with Create Music Group. Both raise the same question about an AI act. If copyright barely reaches the voice, the name is the main thing anyone can own. Wed, 10 Jun 2026 05:30:00 GMT We are the music makers aiartist-rightsxania-monetsunohallwoodtrademark