# Musicians Sue Suno Over AI Identity Exploitation

Jason Isbell and David Lowery lead a class action lawsuit against Suno alleging unauthorized commercial use of musician identities.

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Jason Isbell, a six-time Grammy winner, and David Lowery, frontman of Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven, filed a proposed class action lawsuit against Suno on August 31 in Boston federal court. [^1]

The plaintiffs allege that Suno violated various state and territorial laws pertaining to personal publicity rights by using musicians' identities without permission. [^2]

The complaint accuses Suno of capturing and storing 'voiceprints,' defined as the unique identifying characteristics of an individual's voice, without consent. [^3]

The complaint states that Suno trained its model on tens of millions of recordings to index musicians by name and encode their identities into the AI model. [^4]

The plaintiffs allege that Suno violated Illinois' Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) by processing and storing voice data without obtaining written consent. [^5]

The complaint claims Suno has built ways around its own filters meant to stop users from recreating music based on name alone, citing examples like typing 'Taylor Swift' with spaces to generate her characteristics. [^6]

The legal document states that 'Name responsiveness is a designed, systemic commercial feature of the platform' and that the platform is built to identify musicians by name and generate identity-evocative output on command. [^7]

## What this stands on

1. Jason Isbell, a six-time Grammy winner, and David Lowery, frontman of Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven, filed a proposed class action lawsuit against Suno on August 31 in Boston federal court. (Music Business Worldwide, News)
2. The plaintiffs allege that Suno violated various state and territorial laws pertaining to personal publicity rights by using musicians' identities without permission. (Consequence, News)
3. The complaint accuses Suno of capturing and storing 'voiceprints,' defined as the unique identifying characteristics of an individual's voice, without consent. (Music Business Worldwide, News)
4. The complaint states that Suno trained its model on tens of millions of recordings to index musicians by name and encode their identities into the AI model. (Music Business Worldwide, News)
5. The plaintiffs allege that Suno violated Illinois' Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) by processing and storing voice data without obtaining written consent. (Music Business Worldwide, News)
6. The complaint claims Suno has built ways around its own filters meant to stop users from recreating music based on name alone, citing examples like typing 'Taylor Swift' with spaces to generate her characteristics. (Consequence, News)
7. The legal document states that 'Name responsiveness is a designed, systemic commercial feature of the platform' and that the platform is built to identify musicians by name and generate identity-evocative output on command. (Consequence, News)

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