# Alphabet shareholder sues Sundar Pichai and 12 others over training Google’s AI, including Lyria, on copyrighted works

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/alphabet-shareholder-sues-sundar-pichai-and-12-others-over-training-googles-ai-including-lyria-on-copyrighted-works/
- Published: 2026-11-02T18:32:50+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-02T22:50:59+00:00
- Original publisher: Music Business Worldwide
- Original article: https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/alphabet-shareholder-sues-sundar-pichai-and-12-others-over-training-googles-ai-including-lyria-on-copyrighted-works/
- Topics: Music

## Key points

- An Alphabet shareholder has sued Pichai and 12 others over Google’s AI training.
- The complaint alleges MusicLM used five million clips totalling 280,000 hours.
- Rosen seeks damages for Alphabet and stronger oversight.

## Summary

Alphabet shareholder Phil Rosen has sued Sundar Pichai and 12 other directors and executives, alleging they built Google’s AI models using copyrighted material and voices without permission. Filed on 30 October in a Chicago federal court, the derivative lawsuit seeks to make the leaders answer to Alphabet for the alleged strategy and its costs.

The complaint says Google used recordings, compositions and lyrics to train music models including Lyria, Lyria 2, Lyria 3, Mulan and MusicLM. It alleges MusicLM was trained on five million audio clips, totalling 280,000 hours, without identifying the recordings, rights holders or licences. Rosen seeks unspecified damages for Alphabet, repayment of compensation and stronger copyright and biometric privacy oversight; any damages would go to the company, not Rosen.

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