Google Pulled Into AI Music Litigation Fray as Indie Artists Claim Lyria 3 Stole YouTube Songs

A group of independent artists, songwriters and producers has brought a new copyright infringement lawsuit accusing Google of training its Lyria 3 artificial intelligence model on unlicensed music pulled from YouTube.

The complaint, filed on Friday (March 6) and reviewed by Billboard, follows a series of copyright cases brought by music rightsholders against AI song generators Suno and Udio over the past two years. This is the first such lawsuit to go after Google, which launched Lyria 3 through the Gemini app last month, allowing users to generate up to 30-second AI songs based on text and image prompts.

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