Suno Treads Legal High Wire Between Major Label Deals and Active Lawsuits

Suno is attempting a delicate corporate balancing act. Two years after the major record labels teamed up to sue the AI music generator for training its models on unlicensed catalogs, the company is now fighting half the industry while cutting deals with the other. According to reporting from Billboard, Universal Music Group and Sony Music remain locked in litigation with Suno. Meanwhile, Warner Music Group exited that lawsuit back in November after signing a settlement that requires Suno to build a new model trained strictly on licensed music. BMG, which stayed out of the initial courtroom battle, finalized a similar licensing pact with the company this month. The divergence leaves Suno, valued at $5.4 billion in its latest funding round, navigating two conflicting postures. In court against UMG and Sony, Suno continues to defend scraping copyrighted records as lawful. Across the table with WMG and BMG, it is paying for catalog access to keep the peace. It is hard to argue you did nothing wrong when you are actively writing checks to ensure you do not do it again. Playing both sides buys Suno room to operate, but a harsh federal ruling on their core training methods could instantly dismantle these compromise deals before the new models ever materialize.