Round Hill Music has filed copyright infringement lawsuits against AI music generator Suno and AI company Anthropic in the US District Court for the Northern California, saying it will not settle either case. The independent music company, which owns or controls over 14,000 compositions and nearly 17,000 sound recordings, argues that both firms built valuable AI businesses using copyrighted material without paying or crediting the songwriters and artists who created it.

Each lawsuit seeks statutory damages of up to $150,000 per work wilfully infringed, which Round Hill says could total hundreds of millions of dollars and potentially exceed $1 billion. The complaints, filed on 17 August, each cite an initial exhibit of 500 works — including songs by James Brown, the Goo Goo Dolls and Bonnie Tyler — with plans to expand coverage to potentially 10,000 or more compositions; the Suno case also names data-scraping firm Bright Data as a co-defendant for allegedly enabling the unauthorised harvesting of music and lyrics. Round Hill has hired trial lawyer Richard S. Busch, who won the "Blurred Lines" case, and both suits demand a jury trial, signalling the company's intent to fight rather than negotiate a settlement.