Round Hill sues Suno and Anthropic for over $1 billion in copyright violations

Round Hill, a music publisher that controls hits such as “Iris” and “Total Eclipse of the Heart,” has launched lawsuits demanding over $1 billion in damages from AI music generator Suno and AI chatbot creator Anthropic. The filings claim the firms scraped hundreds of the publisher’s songs without consent to train their AI systems, initially identifying 500 infringed titles and indicating an intention to add up to ten thousand more.

Suno is already embroiled in suits from Universal Music Group, Sony Music Group and a settled case with Warner Music Group, while Anthropic faces actions from Universal Music Publishing, Abcko, Concord and BMG over lyric usage in its Claude agent. Round Hill’s counsel Richard Busch argued that the defendants’ high valuations are built on unlawful copying of copyrighted works. The publisher contended that the defendants’ “expediency” arguments fail given the commercial gains derived from the alleged theft. Representatives for Suno and Anthropic have not replied to requests for comment.