Isbell Sues Suno Over AI That Evokes Musicians’ Identities

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Country star Jason Isbell leads a class-action against Suno, alleging its AI music platform encodes musicians’ identities as tokens to generate identity-evocative songs, descriptions and images from prompts, violating rights of publicity and potentially representing a class of artists; Suno says the claims are meritless and that it blocks prompts for specific artists, though the lawsuit argues those safeguards can be bypassed.
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