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Round Hill Music Files Copyright Infringement Lawsuits Against Suno and Anthropic (Gazettextra)
Summary: Round Hill Music L.P., a private equity platform managing a US$1.1 billion portfolio of music rights, has filed copyright infringement lawsuits against Suno, Inc. and Anthropic PBC. The suits allege the defendants used Round Hill-owned or managed musical works without authorization, license, or compensation to train their AI models, and that they reproduced the works on their servers in violation of the Copyright Act and used data scraping software to bypass security measures in violation of the DMCA. Works at issue include ‘Iris’ by the Goo Goo Dolls, ‘Total Eclipse of the Heart’ by Bonnie Tyler, and ‘I Got You (I Feel Good)’ by James Brown, which have collectively streamed over six billion times. Round Hill is represented by Richard S. Busch, who secured a landmark victory in the ‘Blurred Lines’ case for the family of Marvin Gaye.
Why it matters: The suits allege that copyrighted works have been used to build multi-billion dollar businesses, and in the case of Anthropic a company now valued at more than a trillion dollars, while the songwriters and publishers who created the foundations of that value have received nothing.
Context: Round Hill Music is an independent music publisher and record company, and the manager of investment funds that hold the many thousands of copyrights at issue in the legal proceedings, including some of the best known songs and records of the past 50 years.
"The question in these cases is not complicated. Copyrighted works have been used to build multi-billion dollar businesses, and in the case of Anthropic a company now valued at more than a trillion dollars, while the songwriters and publishers who created the foundations of that value have received nothing. There is nothing fair about that use, and we look forward to making our arguments to the Court and in front of a jury." — GAZETTEXTRA
Date: August 17, 2026 04:08 PM ET
URL: https://gazettextra.com/news/nation_world/round-hill-music-files-copyright-infringement-lawsuits-against-suno-and-anthropic/article_d9a68f46-5d59-5a42-a056-6d88d52380ea.html
Generated Analysis Tone: Positive (40%)
Source Registry Score: 7.0/10 — Medium
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