Nine days after Suno's v6 launch, Universal and Sony went back to the Boston federal court with a fresh complaint. This one counts 60,202 recordings they say were copied without a licence, which at the statutory ceiling for wilful infringement works out to a theoretical nine billion dollars, plus a separate claim over circumventing YouTube's download protections. The heart of the new filing is an argument about lineage. Suno says v6 was trained from scratch without the two majors' catalogues. The labels answer that v6 learned from the outputs and user-preference signals of the earlier models, and via distillation from those models directly, so whatever those models absorbed from the majors' recordings flowed into the new one. Their phrase for it is the fruit of the same poisoned tree. They want an injunction and a jury trial.
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