Sony files another lawsuit against AI music generator Udio

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索尼再次对AI音乐生成器Udio提起诉讼，这次涉及超过3万首未经授权使用的歌曲，包括碧昂丝、迈克尔·杰克逊等顶级艺人的作品。环球和华纳此前已与Udio达成和解，但索尼坚持不接受，认为Udio的“先侵权、后和解”策略本身就是违法的。简单来说，Udio这类工具需要大量音乐来“学习”如何生成新歌，而它直接用了受版权保护的歌曲来训练，没有获得授权。索尼认为这是大规模盗版，即使Udio后来同意付费，也改变不了之前侵权的性质。值得注意的是，法院虽然拒绝了索尼在原案中追加歌曲的请求，但明确表示它有权就所有侵权作品另行起诉，所以索尼又单独提了一个新案子。这件事对普通用户的影响有两个层面。一方面，如果你喜欢用AI生成音乐，未来可能面临更多限制——因为版权问题，这类工具能用的素材可能会变少，生成内容的合法性也需要谨慎对待。另一方面，对于音乐人和版权方来说，这是一场关于“AI使用艺术家的作品到底该不该付费”的关键博弈。如果索尼胜诉，可能会推动整个行业形成更严格的版权付费规则，甚至影响其他AI生成类工具（如绘画、写作）的训练方式。而目前，用户使用Udio等工具生成的音乐，也可能存在潜在的版权纠纷风险。

News Sony files another lawsuit against AI music generator Udio Universal and Warner, which originally sued Udio with Sony, already struck deals with the music generator. By Mariella Moon July 21, 2026 6:56 am EST Claudio Borquez Arias/Shutterstock Sony has sued AI music generator Udio again. It's a separate lawsuit from the one it filed in 2024 along with other major music labels, accusing Udio of infringing on copyrighted works on a "massive scale." According to Music Business Worldwide, the new lawsuit involves 30,117 recordings that the AI company allegedly used without permission to train its models. Sony attempted to add the recordings to its original complaint, but the court rejected its request on June 29. However, the court also said in its ruling that "plaintiffs have the right to seek to stop infringement of, and recover damages for, all copyrighted works." Since the court also mentioned at the time that there was no need for the company to expand that particular lawsuit, Sony filed a new one. The Verge has obtained a copy of the songs involved in this case, and they include some very well known tracks from artists like Alicia Keys, Dolly Parton, Elvis Presley, Beyoncé, Bob Dylan, Britney Spears and Michael Jackson. In the new complaint Sony also accused Udio of obtaining audio recordings for training by ripping them from YouTube. Udio previously admitted using audio data from YouTube in order to train its models, but it insisted that the act amounted to fair use. Udio had already struck licensing deals with Universal and Warner after they filed the original complaint. When Warner signed the deal with the AI company, it said the agreement could be a new income stream for artists who opt in. Sony, the only holdout, wrote in its lawsuit the Udio's "belated embrace of licensing only underscores the unlawfulness of its decision to copy [Sony's and other labels'] copyrighted sound recordings, without a license, in the first place." Sony is now demanding a trial by jury and is asking for statutory damages of up to $150,000 per infringed work.