Reservoir says Suno and Anthropic trained AI on its songs

The Suno filing names 1,050 songs whose US rights Reservoir says it holds, Madonna’s Papa Don’t Preach and Joni Mitchell’s Both Sides Now among them. Multiplied by the $150,000 statutory maximum per work, that comes to $157.5 million, and two further claims under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act take the figures pleaded past $186 million, Music Business Worldwide reports. The publisher reads Suno’s deals with Warner Music Group, BMG and Believe as proof that training licences already sell, and asks for its songs to be wiped from Suno’s datasets and model weights. It also says two tracks Suno made from a prompt for a Miles Davis-like blues piece are unlicensed derivatives of his music.

An Anthropic spokesperson told Billboard: “We disagree with the allegations and intend to defend this case vigorously.” Suno declined to comment.

Suno is not in our database. Of the audio tools we do track, ElevenLabs bars ad use on its free plan and allows it with conditions on paid plans, under terms dated 9 October 2026 on our rights data, checked 24 October.

Because the complaint goes past training data to two tracks Suno generated, it reaches outputs too, so a brand’s Suno soundtrack sits closer to this dispute than a plan’s ad licence alone suggests.