JPF Home Page Forums General Messages General Message Forum Just say no to Suno

It's awesome that you are at least getting some compensation. But the lawyer in the video above (I had joined in to the proceeding at first until I looked more deeply into it and realized this is all pre arranged to clear most claims against Suno and Udio so that all the long term revenue share will go exclusively to labels. This is exactly the same playbook they used with Spotify. The way Spotify is using AI currently is they are paying songwriers to crank out AI content one flat fee vs recurring royalties. As work for hire writers. Then Suno owns the songs outright and floods most playlists with that content. This is partially why so many AI tracks are on the "charts." So Suno pays itself the royalties for all the filler content for things like genre playlists (think Sleep Aid songs, Mood and Vibe playlists etc.) and the few real artists are now getting only 50% of the royalties they once did (which is now like half of the nearly nothing most get paid). I think I saw where a Billion streams on spotify only pays the writer(s) 144K in royalties, though 9 times that amount goes to the owners of the Masters.

One big issue I have struggled with is who owns Suno masters? They continually insist to me in writing that I 100% own my content and Masters, but in Jan 2026, I thought (according to the woman above) that they were reclaiming ownership of the masters. That is a 90% financial difference. I don't trust her or the labels or Suno frankly. In the end, they will absolutely screw the little guys and gals. Meanwhile, it is great that you seem unaffected by any of it. I hope that continues for you.

Brian