Suno hit with massive copyright lawsuit over AI theft
Danish music rights organization Koda has filed a copyright lawsuit against AI music generator Suno, alleging the company trained its artificial intelligence model on protected musical works without authorization or compensation. The organization represents more than 52,000 composers, songwriters and music publishers.
Koda brought the case before Copenhagen City Court on Monday, marking the first instance of a Danish rights group taking legal action against an AI music service. The organization presented evidence showing similarities between AI-generated tracks and original compositions by Danish artists such as Aqua, MØ and Christopher. Koda also alleges Suno obtained audio files through stream-ripping from YouTube and scraped song lyrics without permission. The group seeks a court declaration that Suno illegally used its members’ repertoire to train AI models and made those works available to the public through its service.
Koda CEO Gorm Arildsen described the situation as the biggest theft in music history. A commissioned report estimates that AI-generated music could reduce Danish music industry revenue by $680 million from 2025 to 2030 without policy intervention. Suno faces similar lawsuits from German collection society GEMA and major record labels owned by Sony Music, Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group.
