Sony and UMG are suing Suno again

索尼与环球音乐再次起诉 Suno

Sony and Universal Music Group filed yet another suit against Suno. The labels claim its new v6 model still infringes on their copyrights because it’s trained on user outputs from previous models, which were themselves trained on unlicensed music ripped from YouTube and other sources. Sony and UMG are notable holdouts who did not sign a licensing agreement with Suno.

索尼（Sony）与环球音乐集团（Universal Music Group）再次对 Suno 提起诉讼。这些唱片公司声称，Suno 的新版 v6 模型依然侵犯了它们的版权，因为该模型是基于先前模型的用户输出进行训练的，而那些先前模型本身就是利用从 YouTube 及其他来源抓取的未经授权音乐进行训练的。索尼和环球音乐是目前尚未与 Suno 签署许可协议的知名抵制方。

In its complaint shared with The Verge, Sony and UMG accuse Suno of “model laundering,” saying: “Training a ‘new’ model on the outputs of an infringing model does not eliminate the infringement; it launders it, passing the value of Plaintiffs’ expression from the copied recordings into the tainted models, from those models into their outputs, and from those outputs into v6 … V6 is not a fresh start; it is the fruit of the same poisoned tree.”

在提交给《The Verge》的诉状中，索尼和环球音乐指控 Suno 进行“模型洗钱”（model laundering），并表示：“利用侵权模型的输出结果来训练‘新’模型并不能消除侵权行为；这实际上是在洗白侵权，将原告作品的价值从被复制的录音中转移到受污染的模型中，再从这些模型转移到它们的输出结果中，最后进入 v6……v6 并非一个全新的起点，它依然是同一棵毒树结出的果实。”

When v6 launched, Suno’s Jack Brody told The Verge it was “trained from the ground up, with a new set of data,” including “user data,” but did not offer details beyond that. Suno spokesperson Rachel Racusen later confirmed to The Verge that data includes “creations” from users, saying, “v6 was trained on content licensed from our partners, interactions including creations and preference signals from our community, and the accumulated learnings from our team,” but did not specify whether that included uploaded audio or outputs based on uploaded audio.

当 v6 发布时，Suno 的 Jack Brody 曾告诉《The Verge》，该模型是“从零开始，使用了一套新的数据”进行训练的，其中包括“用户数据”，但并未提供更多细节。Suno 发言人 Rachel Racusen 随后向《The Verge》证实，这些数据确实包含了用户的“创作内容”，并表示：“v6 是基于我们合作伙伴授权的内容、包括社区创作和偏好信号在内的互动数据，以及我们团队积累的经验进行训练的。”但她并未明确说明这是否包含用户上传的音频或基于上传音频生成的输出内容。

Sony further alleges that Suno used distillation to train v6. It claims that it was trained to replicate the results of its previous, “teacher” models, which were created using infringing data.

索尼进一步指控 Suno 使用了“蒸馏”（distillation）技术来训练 v6。索尼声称，该模型被训练用于复制其先前“教师”模型的结果，而那些“教师”模型正是使用侵权数据创建的。

The complaint says that “even a model not directly trained on Plaintiffs’ recordings is informed by, and benefits from, Suno’s retained unauthorized copies.” Essentially, the labels argue that, unless Suno truly starts from scratch, its models will continue to be built on stolen data.

诉状指出，“即使是一个没有直接使用原告录音进行训练的模型，也受到了 Suno 所保留的未经授权副本的影响并从中获益。”本质上，这些唱片公司认为，除非 Suno 真正从零开始，否则其模型将继续建立在窃取的数据之上。