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[QUOTE="Bombastus, post: 91309, member: 2178"]
Jason Isbell hauled Suno into Boston federal court, and the 84-page filing skips copyright entirely. David Lowery of Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven signed on, along with Texas bluesman Guy Forsyth and Florida saxophonist Eduardo Calle. Seventeen counts, zero-dollar figure attached.

The gripe centers on name prompts. Feeding the Isbell name to v5 spat out an Americana cut titled Paper Bell, fingerpicked guitar and a churchy cover image. Camper Van Beethoven pulled up Pull Over Where the Wheat, complete with accordion and fiddle.

Suno has publicly stated that its filters block artist names at the prompt box. Plaintiffs call that flatly untrue, and they say spacing out the letters walks right past the gate, with affiliates on Suno's payroll posting how-to clips about the workaround.

A second batch of claims runs through the Illinois statute covering biometric data, arguing Suno measured and stored singer traits such as pitch contour, formant shape, and breathing patterns, which lands everything in voiceprint territory. The class figure clears $5 million, and Suno, valued at $5.4 billion, eyes $1 billion in revenue by 2028.
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