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Case Information
Case name Sony Music Entertainment v. Uncharted Labs Inc[1]
Court U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York[1]
Docket 1:26-cv-06120[1]
Filed July 20, 2026[2]
Judge(s) Alvin K. Hellerstein[2]
Plaintiffs Sony Music Entertainment and nine affiliated recording entities[1]
Defendants Uncharted Labs, Inc. (Udio); John Does 1–10[1]
Case type Civil copyright action[1]
Claims / issues Copyright infringement concerning 30,117 recordings; separate from the 2024 Udio action[1]
Status Second action filed July 20, 2026; public docket reviewed through August 31. Later developments have not been verified.[2]

Sony Music Entertainment v Uncharted Labs Inc is a federal copyright infringement action filed on July 20, 2026, in which Sony Music Entertainment and nine affiliated labels accuse Udio parent Uncharted Labs of using Sony-controlled recordings to train generative-AI models without authorization.[3][4]

Procedural Background

Sony filed the new action after the judge overseeing the original 2024 record-label case declined to permit Sony to add the 30,117 newly identified recordings to that suit.[3][4] The new complaint alleges that the larger catalog could support statutory damages of up to approximately $4.5 billion.[3]

Significance

The case extends the music industry's litigation over whether copying copyrighted recordings for generative-AI training is fair use and whether an emerging licensing market affects that analysis.[3]

See Also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Court filing / case record, reviewed September 7, 2026
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Case source, reviewed September 7, 2026
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Unite.AI, "Sony Music Escalates Copyright Fight With Second Udio Suit" (July 21, 2026)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Digital Music News via MSN, "Sony Music fires off supersized infringement lawsuit against Udio" (July 20, 2026)
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