Jamendo has dropped its copyright infringement lawsuit towards Suno.
The Winamp Group subsidiary filed a discover of voluntary dismissal within the US District Court docket for the District of Massachusetts on Thursday (August 13).
The case has been withdrawn with out prejudice, which leaves Jamendo free to convey the identical claims once more.
“Pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Process 41(a)(1)(A)(i), Plaintiff hereby offers discover that the above-captioned motion is voluntarily dismissed in its entirety with out prejudice,” reads the discover, signed by Jamendo lawyer Alexander T. Hornat.
“No defendant has served a solution or a movement for abstract judgment,” the Jamendo submitting provides.
The discover units out no motive for the withdrawal and makes no point out of a settlement between Jamendo and Suno.
Jamendo, Winamp Group and Suno had not responded to MBW’s requests for remark on the time of publication.
Jamendo sued Suno on June 29, accusing the AI music firm of constructing its platform on the agency’s catalog and knowledge with out authorization. It filed an amended criticism in late July, weeks earlier than pulling the case.
The criticism centered on the MTG-Jamendo Dataset, which attracts greater than 55,000 tracks from the corporate’s catalog and dates again to round 2019.
Jamendo launched that dataset for non-commercial analysis and mentioned any firm coaching a industrial AI system on it had to purchase a license.
“The submitting of this criticism marks one other necessary step in Jamendo’s efforts to guard the rights of artists in an atmosphere the place synthetic intelligence is reworking the music business,” mentioned Alexandre Saboundjian, CEO of Winamp Group, when the swimsuit was filed.
“We imagine that innovation and respect for mental property should go hand in hand to make sure a sustainable ecosystem for creators, rights holders and the businesses growing tomorrow’s applied sciences,” added Saboundjian.
Jamendo had sued chipmaker Nvidia per week earlier, on June 22, over the alleged use of the identical dataset to coach two of its AI audio fashions.
That case, within the US District Court docket for the Northern District of California, has not been withdrawn. A associated industrial declare of about EUR €16 million (approx. USD $18.2 million) towards Nvidia Applied sciences Belgium is pending in Belgium’s Ghent Enterprise Court docket.
A second copyright declare towards Suno was dropped across the similar time. Poseidon Wave Media, the entity behind instrumental duo The American Greenback, sued Suno in New York in Might, claiming the duo’s licensing income had been “practically eradicated” for the reason that platform launched. It has been dismissed with prejudice, that means it can’t be introduced once more.
The dismissals take away two circumstances from the roster of copyright claims towards Suno.
Common Music Group and Sony Music Leisure proceed to sue the corporate in the identical Massachusetts district, within the motion introduced by the RIAA in June 2024.
The 2 majors have requested that courtroom so as to add 61,026 recordings to the case, a movement Suno is opposing.
Reality discovery there closes on September 30, 2026, with dispositive motions due on April 9, 2027.
The events held a discovery standing convention on August 12 and informed the courtroom they’d agreed to confer additional.
Suno misplaced a copyright case in Germany on July 31, when the Munich Regional Court docket discovered, in a first-instance ruling on six check compositions, that it was not entitled to coach its fashions on, retailer or reproduce works represented by Germany’s gathering society GEMA.
“We disagree with right this moment’s ruling – which rests on a basic mischaracterization of how Suno’s know-how works, how it’s used and the way U.S. regulation applies – and are evaluating all obtainable choices, together with an enchantment,” Suno informed MBW on the time.
Denmark’s Koda has a separate declare towards the corporate in Europe, whereas unbiased artist Anthony Justice and fifth Wheel Information are main a US class motion.
The withdrawal arrives as Suno rewrites the foundations of its platform.
Co-founder and CEO Mikey Shulman revealed a set of firm ideas on August 6 and mentioned Suno would undertake audio watermarking and fingerprinting know-how “within the coming weeks.”
“We’ll quickly introduce a brand new downloads coverage designed to restrict the power to mass distribute songs on streaming platforms, whereas preserving the skilled, inventive, and private methods folks use Suno,” wrote Shulman.
“These modifications received’t have an effect on the overwhelming majority of our customers, however they may make large-scale abuse a lot tougher,” the Suno CEO added.
The corporate screens uploaded audio information and lyrics by way of Audible Magic, Musixmatch and different third-party suppliers, in accordance with the identical put up.
Audible Magic is identical fingerprinting service UMG and Sony Music used to determine their recordings inside Suno‘s coaching knowledge.
Six days later, BMG and Suno introduced a world alliance masking BMG’s recorded music and publishing repertoire. The deal additionally settles Suno‘s prior use of these works.
“Constructing that future responsibly means working immediately with the individuals who make music and the businesses that symbolize them,” mentioned Shulman of that deal.
“Along with BMG, we are able to develop new experiences that give artists and songwriters actual alternative, generate new income, and make music an even bigger a part of folks’s lives.”
That settlement follows Suno‘s November 2025 settlement and licensing partnership with Warner Music Group, which additionally noticed the AI firm purchase Songkick.
Suno raised greater than USD $400 million in a Sequence D spherical in June that valued it at USD $5.4 billion.Music Enterprise Worldwide
