Reservoir sues Suno and Anthropic over 1,900 songs used in AI training

Reservoir Media filed two suits in the US District Court for the Northern District of California on October 21, 2026, reported October 22-23: one against Suno over 1,050 compositions and one against Anthropic over 853, each with copyright claims plus two DMCA counts for circumventing access controls and stripping copyright management information. Pleaded damages run to roughly $186 million against Suno and $151 million against Anthropic. Named works include Joni Mitchell's Both Sides Now, Johnny Cash's Ring of Fire and Madonna's Papa Don't Preach; Reservoir seeks destruction of copies held in training data and model weights.