Reservoir Wants $340M From Suno, Anthropic Over 1,903 Songs
Photo: Johnny Cash in 1977. His 'Ring of Fire' is among the 1,050 compositions Reservoir says Suno copied to train its AI. Credit: CBS Television via Wikimedia Commons (public domain). File photo — unrelated to the litigation. Ring of Fire is now evidence. A music publisher you have probably never heard of has walked into a federal courthouse in California and accused two of the best-funded AI companies on earth of stealing songs by Johnny Cash, Madonna and Joni Mitchell — and it wants nearly $340 million for them. Reservoir Media filed the two lawsuits on Wednesday, October 21, one against Suno and one against Anthropic. The details were first reported by Billboard and confirmed when Music Business Worldwide obtained the complaints. If you thought the AI copyright wars were cooling down, think again: this is the industry's litigation blitz entering a new, more aggressive phase. And this one has teeth. Not just because of the money — though $340 million is the s...