AI startupSunohas admitted that it uses copyrighted songs to train its AI model.

But, it argues, doing so is legal under copyright laws fair use doctrine.

Sunos confession that its AI model used copyrighted songs came in a court filing.

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Schulman said such use is viewed by Suno as early but promising progress.

Major record labels see this vision as a threat to their business.

He added, learning is not infringing.

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It never has been, and it is not now.

Their industrial scale infringement does not qualify as fair use.

The resolution of the lawsuit will likely set a precedent in what is acceptable use in AI training.