An independent regional Mexican record label filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against AI music company Suno on Monday, claiming the company used its catalog without permission to train a model capable of generating Spanish-language songs.
According to Billboard, the complaint was filed by Gerencia 360 Music and seeks nearly $100 million in damages. The suit was brought by veteran music litigator Richard Busch, who has filed similar cases against Suno on behalf of other rightsholders.
Like other plaintiffs in AI music cases, Gerencia alleges that Suno pulled its recordings from streaming services and fed them into its training data. But this lawsuit makes a more specific claim: that Gerencia's catalog was essential for Suno to develop its Spanish-language capabilities.
"Gerencia's works are especially important to Suno because they are hugely popular Spanish language works, which Suno has misappropriated to train its models so they may provide Spanish language songs in response to user queries," reads the complaint. "Without its infringement of Gerencia's Spanish language copyrighted works, Suno would not have been well-positioned to capture a significant share of the Spanish language AI user market."
Busch says Gerencia's catalog includes works by artists such as Adriel Favela, Javier Rosas, Giovanny Ayala, Cornelio Vega y su Dinastia, and Noel Torres, describing them as some of the most recognizable and commercially valuable songs in regional Mexican and Latin music history.
A Suno representative declined to comment on the lawsuit.
This is not the first time Suno has faced legal action over its training practices. In 2024, the three major record labels filed a joint suit against the company, alleging it had infringed their sound recordings at what they described as an almost unimaginable scale. Since then, additional suits have come from indie artists pursuing class action status, production music company Jamendo, and indie publisher Round Hill Music, the last of which was also filed by Busch just two weeks before the Gerencia complaint.
Suno has maintained throughout these cases that its AI training process falls under copyright law's fair use doctrine, which permits unlicensed use of material for transformative purposes. No court has yet ruled on that argument. Fair use remains an open legal question at the center of dozens of ongoing AI copyright disputes.
The company has reached settlements with some major players. Warner Music Group exited the majors' lawsuit after reaching an agreement that requires Suno to train a new model on licensed music. BMG reached a similar settlement.
The Gerencia case adds to the growing list of rightsholders pursuing Suno through litigation as the legal landscape around AI music generation continues to take shape.
