Was Your Music Used
to Train an AI Model?

There is no public database where you can search your catalog directly against AI training data — most AI music companies have not disclosed their full training sources. The most reliable signals are: your label or distributor being named in litigation such as the RIAA lawsuits against Suno and Udio, your performing rights organization joining or announcing a related action, or AI-generated tracks that closely resemble your work in style, structure, or specific musical elements.

Yes. The RIAA, representing Sony Music, Universal Music Group, and Warner Music Group, filed lawsuits against Suno and Udio in June 2024, alleging mass infringement of copyrighted sound recordings used without a license to train their AI models. Udio settled with Universal Music Group and Warner Music in November 2025. Germany's GEMA and Denmark's Koda have filed similar actions. Independent musicians have also begun filing class-action lawsuits.

Independent musicians began filing their own class-action lawsuits against Suno and Udio starting in October 2025, separate from the major-label RIAA case. If you believe your work was used without permission, options include contacting your performing rights organization, consulting a copyright attorney about joining or filing a class action, and documenting your original catalog with dated proof of ownership in case it becomes relevant to any claim.

Start by documenting what you can: save examples of AI-generated content that resembles your work, note dates and sources, and check whether your label, distributor, or PRO has joined any related litigation. Then create or gather timestamped proof of your original catalog's creation dates — this strengthens your position if you later need to demonstrate what existed before any AI training could have occurred. Timestamp your catalog free →

A timestamped proof establishes when your original work was created, independent of any AI training dispute. It doesn't prove your music was used to train a specific model, but it strengthens your overall position by giving you clear, verifiable evidence of your catalog's creation dates — useful if you later need to demonstrate prior ownership in any legal context.

Not comprehensively as of 2026. Some platforms have disclosed partial information during litigation discovery — for example, Suno acknowledged in court filings that it used large amounts of music data from the internet for training. But there is no general legal requirement for full public disclosure of training sources, which is part of why affected artists often only learn details through lawsuits.