Google Pulled Into AI Music Litigation Fray as Indie Artists Claim Lyria 3 Stole YouTube Songs

Google Pulled Into AI Music Litigation Fray as Indie Artists Claim Lyria 3 Stole YouTube Songs

A group of independent artists, songwriters and producers has brought a new copyright infringement lawsuit accusing Google of training its Lyria 3 artificial intelligence model on unlicensed music pulled from YouTube. The complaint, filed on Friday (March 6) and reviewed by Billboard, follows a series of copyright cases brought by music rightsholders against AI song generators Suno and Udio over the past two years. This is the first such lawsu…

Google had every opportunity to train its AI legally, but chose to do it on the cheap instead, say indie musicians in new lawsuit

A group of independent artists are suing Google over its Lyria music AI model, which they claim has been trained on tens of millions of recordings without the necessary licences from the music industry. In a filing with the Illinois courts, the musicians acknowledge that their legal action joins a long list of copyright lawsuits filed by creators and rightsholders against generative AI companies, some of which also relate to music AI. However, t…

Independent musicians sue Google over alleged AI music copyright violations

A coalition of independent musicians from across the United States has filed a lawsuit against Google, alleging widespread copyright infringement through the company’s use of artificial intelligence in music generation.

Independent musicians sue Google over training of Lyria model

Good news if you’ve been hankering after another music-industry lawsuit that does have everything to do with AI! A group of independent musicians and producers are suing Google over the training of its Lyria model. According to Billboard, the lawsuit accuses Google of training Lyria 3 on music that had been uploaded to YouTube, but not licensed […] The post is from Music Ally.