Udio answers Sony Music suit: training was 'quintessential fair use', damages '$200 per work'

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In a court filing made public September 1, Udio doubled down on its defense against Sony Music's supersized copyright suit, calling its AI training 'quintessential fair use' and arguing that even if infringement is found, statutory damages should be 'as low as $200 per work'. The filing also acknowledges Udio acquired some training data using YT-DLP, the YouTube-scraping tool.

Why it matters

First admission of specific scraping tooling in the AI-music cases

Importance: 2/5

Notable court filing development

udio ai-music legal fair-use

Sources

media Udio continues to argue that its AI training was 'quintessential fair use'

media Udio Fires Back Against Supersized Sony Music Suit, Acknowledging 'That It Acquired Some of Its Training Data by Utilizing YT-DLP'