Anthropic, Suno Sued Over Alleged AI Training Using Madonna, Johnny Cash, Joni Mitchell’s Music

The legal battle between the music industry and artificial intelligence companies, Anthropic and Suno, has taken another significant turn.A major independent music publisher has now filed two separate federal lawsuits on the same day, targeting both an AI music generation platform and one of the most prominent AI companies in the world. Anthropic, Suno Face New AI Copyright LawsuitReservoir Media Management filed two copyright infringement lawsuits on October 21, 2026, in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, one against Suno and one against Anthropic. The two suits are related but separate, covering different sets of works and different allegations about how those works were allegedly misused. The combined potential statutory damages across both cases reach nearly $340 million.

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