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The entertainment industry is a profoundly dangerous and beautiful place, and its legal landscape shares more in common with the Wild Wild West than any other frontier. Its participants encounter arduous challenges- diversified revenue sources, restrictive and unreliable public funding, and the high octane stresses of live event planning- all while suffering a chronic lack of access to legal counsel in navigating these challenges. Most cow-boys and girls opt to traverse this

Is Suno’s “Back-End” use of copyrighted recordings fair use? Answer: Suno’s “back end” use of UMG’s recordings is likely not fair use because its threat of market supplantation outweighs its transformative purpose. On June 24, 2024, Universal Music Group and other affected labels (hereinafter, “UMG”) sued Suno, Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. UMG alleges Suno committed copyright infringement by using proprietary sound recordings to train it