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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.
AIvia Warner Music Group
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.
Industryvia Songkick (operated by Suno Inc.)
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.
Artist rightsvia Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato (AGCM)
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.
Releasesvia Suno
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.
AIvia Suno Help Center
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