Sony Music sues Udio for allegedly scraping YouTube music to train its AI music generation model without licensing.

Sony Music filed a lawsuit against Udio, claiming the AI music startup used stream ripping to extract audio from YouTube for training purposes.

The case raises questions about copyright protections and fair use in the context of training generative AI models on copyrighted music.

This lawsuit is part of a broader wave of copyright disputes between major record labels and AI companies over unauthorized use of music in model development.