Sony Music and Universal Music Group have asked a Boston federal court to force venture capital firm Lightspeed, an investor in AI music startup Suno, to testify about what it knew regarding legal risk tied to training data. The request came in a filing submitted last Tuesday, October 13, opposing Lightspeed’s motion to quash the labels’ subpoena.
The move is part of the broader litigation between major labels and Suno over the use of copyrighted recordings to train AI models. By seeking testimony from an investor rather than the company itself, the labels appear to be probing how much due diligence backers conducted on potential copyright exposure before funding the startup.
Read the full story at Music Business Worldwide.