The American Federation of Musicians (AFM) claims it's being left out of landmark licensing deals with Suno and Udio.
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The American Federation of Musicians (AFM) has filed a lawsuit alleging its members aren’t sharing in the upside of the major labels’ landmark licensing settlements with AI music companies Suno and Udio.
AFM, the union for session musicians, is suing Universal Music Group (UMG) and Warner Music Group (WMG) for breach of their collective bargaining agreement. The lawsuit, filed on Friday (June 5) and first obtained and reported by Billboard, focuses on copyright settlements that the two majors reached at the end of 2025 for popular music AI models to be trained on licensed works.
