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Suno confirms v6 was trained on user creations, not just preferences
In a 22 September 2026 statement, Suno said v6 was trained on licensed partner content, community interactions including creations and preference signals, and the team’s accumulated learnings. MBW says this is the first time user creations were named in the v6 training account. Connect that to the current ToS Content licence. Not legal advice.
What happened
In a 22 September 2026 statement, Suno called UMG and Sony’s second complaint “fundamentally flawed on both the facts and the law.” The same statement said v6 was trained on content licensed from partners, interactions including creations and preference signals from its community, and the accumulated learnings from its team.
What changed
MBW says this is the first time Suno has publicly placed user creations in the v6 training account. The 9 September account centred on preference data and denied that user-uploaded audio was used; it did not settle whether generated Output entered training.
Whose work this changes
The current Terms (last revised 10 August 2026, effective 3 September 2026) grant Suno a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable licence over Content — Submissions plus Output — including to improve related machine-learning models. For producers who build a commercial catalogue on Suno, “we did not upload audio” is not the training question. The statement describes a class of community data; it is not proof that a named track was used. Not legal advice.
Do this today
Open the current ToS Content clause and tag commercial-catalogue generations as “creations included in the v6 training description (22 September 2026 statement).”
Sources
The statement wording is MBW and Music Ally (secondary). The ToS is primary. Clickable URLs are at the end.
Source: Music Business Worldwide