--- title: "Amid legal battles, Suno says it will start watermarking songs" url: https://daily.dev/posts/amid-legal-battles-suno-says-it-will-start-watermarking-songs-tr2vujflk source_url: https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/06/amid-legal-battles-suno-says-it-will-start-watermarking-songs type: article source: "TechCrunch" published: 2026-08-06T13:35:45.919Z updated: 2026-08-06T13:36:10.089Z tags: ["data-breach"] reading_time: 3 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Amid legal battles, Suno says it will start watermarking songs **[TechCrunch](https://daily.dev/sources/tc)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Suno, the AI music generation platform, announced audio watermarking and fingerprinting tools to prevent misuse of its AI-generated songs on streaming platforms. The company also signed a deal with Musixmatch's Sentinal system for copyright detection, updated community guidelines to ban deepfakes and unauthorized voice cloning, and plans a new download policy to restrict mass distribution. These moves come amid mounting legal pressure: Suno faces lawsuits from UMG and Sony coordinated by the RIAA, a German court ruling in favor of GEMA for copyright violations, and a class action lawsuit following a data breach that exposed 55 million users and revealed the platform scraped YouTube, Deezer, and Genius for training data. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Warner Music Group partners with Suno to offer AI likenesses of its artists](https://daily.dev/posts/warner-music-group-partners-with-suno-to-offer-ai-likenesses-of-its-artists-9qgazlm8n) · The Verge · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [A German court says AI music maker Suno broke copyright, a first for Europe](https://daily.dev/posts/a-german-court-says-ai-music-maker-suno-broke-copyright-a-first-for-europe-kiunmkoab) · The Next Web · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#data-breach](https://daily.dev/tags/data-breach) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/amid-legal-battles-suno-says-it-will-start-watermarking-songs-tr2vujflk)