International music publishing association claims it has “extensive evidence of serious copyright infringement” by AI firms that have used popular songs to train generative models

An international music publishing company called ICMP claims it has gathered two years worth of evidence showing that AI firms have scraped copyright-protected music from millions of artists to train their generative AI models.

Similar claims have already been brought to lawsuits against firms like Udio and Suno by major labels (namely one in 2024), and even by an independent artist this year, but ICMP’s findings appear to be the largest investigation so far into the training of generative AI across the music industry...

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