News-March-09-2026
March 9, 2026 — Daily digest of AI law developments.
This article consolidates 2 news stories from March 6-9, 2026.
Contents
1. Indie Artists v Google Lyria 3 2. GEMA v Suno German AI Music Case
Indie Artists v Google Lyria 3
March 6, 2026 — A coalition of independent musicians filed a lawsuit against Google in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, alleging that Google's Lyria 3 AI music model was trained on over 44 million copyrighted clips (280,000 hours) from YouTube without proper compensation or consent.
The 118-page complaint (Case No. 1:26-cv-02582) claims Google DeepMind copied millions of copyrighted sound recordings, musical compositions, and lyrics to develop Lyria 3.
See: Indie Artists v Google Lyria
GEMA v Suno German AI Music Case
March 9, 2026 — GEMA, Germany's music collecting society representing over 100,000 members and two million rightsholders worldwide, sued US-based AI music generator Suno on January 21, 2025. A German court at Munich Regional Court I is expected to issue a ruling on June 12, 2026, concerning whether Suno infringed copyrights by using protected sound recordings to train its generative AI music model without licenses.
See: GEMA v Suno