Jason Isbell Sues Suno Alleging AI System Is Using Musicians’ Identities Without Consent
The proposed class action says Suno indexed millions of musicians by name and captured voice data without consent.
- On Monday, Grammy-winning Americana singer Jason Isbell and Cracker frontman David Lowery filed a class action lawsuit against AI platform Suno in Massachusetts federal court, alleging the company violates publicity rights by using musicians' identities without consent.
- The lawsuit alleges Suno intentionally designed its AI to use musician names as retrieval keys, allowing users to generate music evoking specific artists while bypassing the company's own safety filters.
- Plaintiffs claim Suno captures "voiceprints"—unique identifying characteristics of singers' voices—to generate imitative tracks, citing "Paper Bell" as evidence of Suno imitating Isbell's "characteristic clear male vocals and country twang."
- A Suno spokesperson stated the claims are "without merit" and the company aims to help people create original music, while Suno faces separate copyright infringement suits from Sony and Universal.
- Seeking unspecified damages and class-action status, the musicians allege violations of Illinois' biometric privacy law , distinguishing this case from copyright litigation by targeting unauthorized commercial exploitation of identity.
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Suno is one of the platforms used to generate music by IA Reproduction A group of musicians, including singer and composer Jason Isbell, entered with a collective action against Suno, a platform that generates music by artificial intelligence, in a federal court in Massachusetts, USA, for alleged violation of image and identity rights. The action was moved on Monday (31), claiming that Suno used the identities of artists without permission to al…
Jason Isbell Leads New Suno Lawsuit, Claims AI Music Generator ‘Exploits’ Musicians’ Identities in Models
Grammy-winning Americana crooner Jason Isbell is one of several new litigants in a new federal lawsuit against the AI music generator Suno, arguing the company has allowed users to produce tracks based on musicians’ identities with its models without their consent. The lawsuit — filed Monday in the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts by a group that […]
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