Jamendo has dropped its copyright infringement lawsuit against Suno.
The Winamp Group subsidiary filed a notice of voluntary dismissal in the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts on Thursday (August 13).
The case has been withdrawn without prejudice, which leaves Jamendo free to bring the same claims again.
“Pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 41(a)(1)(A)(i), Plaintiff hereby gives notice that the above-captioned action is voluntarily dismissed in its entirety without prejudice,” reads the notice, signed by Jamendo attorney Alexander T. Hornat.
“No defendant has served an answer or a motion for summary judgment,” the Jamendo filing adds.
The notice sets out no reason for the withdrawal and makes no mention of a settlement between Jamendo and Suno.
Jamendo, Winamp Group and Suno had not responded to MBW’s requests for comment at the time of publication.
Jamendo sued Suno on June 29, accusing the AI music company of building its platform on the firm’s catalog and data without authorization. It filed an amended complaint in late July, weeks before pulling the case.
The complaint centered on the MTG-Jamendo Dataset, which draws more than 55,000 tracks from the company’s catalog and dates back to around 2019.
Jamendo released that dataset for non-commercial research and said any company training a commercial AI system on it had to buy a license.
“The filing of this complaint marks another important step in Jamendo’s efforts to protect the rights of artists in an environment where artificial intelligence is transforming the music industry,” said Alexandre Saboundjian, CEO of Winamp Group, when the suit was filed.
“We believe that innovation and respect for intellectual property must go hand in hand to ensure a sustainable ecosystem for creators, rights holders and the companies developing tomorrow’s technologies,” added Saboundjian.
Jamendo had sued chipmaker Nvidia a week earlier, on June 22, over the alleged use of the same dataset to train two of its AI audio models.
That case, in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, has not been withdrawn. A related commercial claim of about EUR €16 million (approx. USD $18.2 million) against Nvidia Technologies Belgium is pending in Belgium’s Ghent Enterprise Court.
A second copyright claim against Suno was dropped around the same time. Poseidon Wave Media, the entity behind instrumental duo The American Dollar, sued Suno in New York in May, claiming the duo’s licensing revenue had been “nearly eliminated” since the platform launched. It has been dismissed with prejudice, meaning it cannot be brought again.
The dismissals remove two cases from the roster of copyright claims against Suno.
Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment continue to sue the company in the same Massachusetts district, in the action brought by the RIAA in June 2024.
The two majors have asked that court to add 61,026 recordings to the case, a motion Suno is opposing.
Fact discovery there closes on September 30, 2026, with dispositive motions due on April 9, 2027.
The parties held a discovery status conference on August 12 and told the court they had agreed to confer further.
Suno lost a copyright case in Germany on July 31, when the Munich Regional Court found, in a first-instance ruling on six test compositions, that it was not entitled to train its models on, store or reproduce works represented by Germany’s collecting society GEMA.
“We disagree with today’s ruling – which rests on a fundamental mischaracterization of how Suno’s technology works, how it is used and how U.S. law applies – and are evaluating all available options, including an appeal,” Suno told MBW at the time.
Denmark’s Koda has a separate claim against the company in Europe, while independent artist Anthony Justice and 5th Wheel Records are leading a US class action.
The withdrawal arrives as Suno rewrites the rules of its platform.
Co-founder and CEO Mikey Shulman published a set of company principles on August 6 and said Suno would adopt audio watermarking and fingerprinting technology “in the coming weeks.”
“We will soon introduce a new downloads policy designed to limit the ability to mass distribute songs on streaming platforms, while preserving the professional, creative, and personal ways people use Suno,” wrote Shulman.
“These changes won’t affect the vast majority of our users, but they will make large-scale abuse much harder,” the Suno CEO added.
The company screens uploaded audio files and lyrics through Audible Magic, Musixmatch and other third-party providers, according to the same post.
Audible Magic is the same fingerprinting service UMG and Sony Music used to identify their recordings inside Suno‘s training data.
Six days later, BMG and Suno announced a global alliance covering BMG’s recorded music and publishing repertoire. The deal also settles Suno‘s prior use of those works.
“Building that future responsibly means working directly with the people who make music and the companies that represent them,” said Shulman of that deal.
“Together with BMG, we can develop new experiences that give artists and songwriters real choice, generate new revenue, and make music a bigger part of people’s lives.”
That agreement follows Suno‘s November 2025 settlement and licensing partnership with Warner Music Group, which also saw the AI company acquire Songkick.
Suno raised more than USD $400 million in a Series D round in June that valued it at USD $5.4 billion.Music Business Worldwide
