A week after a court in Germany found Suno, an AI music generator, found liable for copyright infringement, the AI company announced that it will introduce mandatory watermarking on AI generated songs/music and limit the ability of users to mass produce and distribute AI songs.

In a blog post, Suno co-founder and CEO Mikey Shulman said the company wants to encourage the creation of original music and that artificial intelligence should “enable originality and not imitation.”

“We will soon introduce a new downloads policy designed to limit the ability to mass distribute songs on streaming platforms, while preserving the professional, creative and personal ways people use Suno…..in the coming weeks, we will also be adopting new audio watermarking and fingerprinting technology so we can partner more closely with distribution platforms on combatting fraud and misuse,” said Shulman.

The Munich Regional Court in Germany on July 31 had ruled against Suno in a copyright violation case filed by GEMA, the country’s primary music copyright collective.

The court had ruled that Suno had unlawfully reproduced and publicly performed musical works of renowned artists including Rasputin by Frank Farian and “Atemlos durch die Nacht (Breathless Through the Night)” by Kristina Bach.

The court observed that despite Suno’s defence that it was users whose prompts led to their AI models generating music works in question, the company was responsible for the architecture of the models and memorization of training data.

The court has not yet announced the copyright claim amount levied on Suno and has instructed the company to disclose “illicit revenues”.

The company had run into another controversy recently after a hacker had breached the platform and allegedly stolen personal information of its 55 million users, as per a report from Tech Crunch.

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