On September 9, Suno launched v6, a family of AI music models trained on licensed data from Warner Music Group, BMG, and Believe. The release fulfills a settlement Suno reached with Warner in November 2025 after the label sued for copyright infringement.
Suno says the new models were trained "from scratch" using licensed recordings, marking a shift from its earlier approach. The company is retiring all previous models the same day. Three versions launched: v6 for polished results, v6-wild for experimental output, and v6-mini for everyone.
The lawsuits didn't stop
Sony Music and Universal Music Group are still suing Suno in federal court in Boston. In May 2026, they moved to expand their case from 560 recordings to more than 61,000, which would push potential statutory damages past $9 billion.
Suno also faces a copyright ruling in Germany, where a Munich court prohibited the company's use of six compositions and ordered it to disclose the scale of use. The judgment is immediately enforceable while Suno considers an appeal.
What you lost in the settlement
As part of the Warner agreement, Suno changed what users can do with the music they generate:
Free users can play and share songs but cannot download them. Paid users (Pro at $8/month, Premier at $24/month in the US) get monthly download limits and must pay extra after hitting the cap. All songs now carry watermarks and fingerprints for tracking.
Suno says artists will eventually be able to opt in to remixing and sampling features and receive payment when they participate. No payment structure exists yet.
Licensed training, rented output
Suno went from training on copyrighted music without permission to paying for licenses. That's progress for labels and artists. But for users, the deal moved in the other direction: you now generate music under stricter terms, with fewer rights to the output, and monthly fees that cap how much you can take with you.
You can make music in Suno's cloud. Owning what you make is a different conversation.