In the past few hours Sound he presented v6a family of three musical generative models developed together with Warner Music Group, BMG And Believe. With the same announcement the company has scheduled the shutdown of everything that was there before: “As v6 is distributed, we will retire previous models and move Suno entirely to the v6 generation”. The systems trained on the material that the majors had claimed in court leave the scene, and in their place come those built with the label that had promoted the lawsuit.
Labels have been cashing in since launch day. Jack Brody, Suno’s chief product officer, pointed to the September 9th as the starting date of revenues for industrial partners, while it linked the part concerning musicians to products still to be built: voluntary participation initiatives centered on individual artists, who will be paid if they choose to join.
The v6 generation is divided into three models with different recipients. v6 it is the flagship model, presented as reliable and precise on any genre, and remains for subscribers Pro And Premier; v6-wildreserved for the same plans, aims for less predictable results and serves as a brainstorming companion rather than a generator of optimal outcomes; v6-mini it is the fast and light version, the only one accessible to people free accounts. Brody explained that the new models return a listenable song a few seconds after the prompt.
The new functions mainly concern control over an existing song. Yes it can edit a single section in words leaving the rest intact, build a mashup which takes the vocals from one piece and the drums from another in a single request, sample at a precise timecodeisolate an instrument and build a drum loop on it, replace a single word of the text without regenerating the track. The constraints on input also disappear: the starting point can be an image, a video, a voice memo. Isolating a track and stitching together multiple sources are operations that normally interest those who are already well versed in musical production, and are unlikely to be functions that tickle those who try a generator out of curiosity.
Trained on what, exactly?
Brody said the v6 family was “trained from the ground up with a new set of data, different from what went into previous models,” and that that material includes licensed data from partners and user data. Beyond this, the company does not go into detail: it names Warner, BMG and Believe as co-developers, but does not indicate which catalogs were used, in what quantity, nor with what procedure. It is a gap that hardly goes unnoticed for a launch that rests entirely on the distinction between licensed models and contested models.
The deal with Warner dates back to November 2025 and ended the label’s position in the copyright infringement lawsuit the majors filed in 2024 against Suno and Hear. The agreement committed the company to launch more advanced licensed models and retire existing ones and v6 represents the fulfillment of the agreement. Sony And Universal however, they remain in litigation with Suno, which is also facing appeals from musicians, including Jason Isbell, and users who accuse it of having neglected security.
A German court ruled this year that Suno had infringed copyright, the first such decision in Europe, in a case brought by the collecting society GEMA. Wednesday’s announcement does not affect that ruling. The company is now a licensed partner of some majors in the United States and a party convicted of infringement in Germany.
Who gets paid, and when
In an interview with Bloomberg, Brody explained that Suno will pay labels and publishers for the rights to the music he uses in training, and that the labels will decide how to split the royalties between artists and songwriters. The financial terms of the operation are not yet defined. The stated foothold is the derivative work: “The music ecosystem and our partners are always looking for ways to create more revenue opportunities for rights holders and artists,” said Brody, who places there the promise of additional streams for those who agree to participate.
The agreement also changed what those who use the platform can do. The songs produced with the free plan can be listened to and shared but not downloaded, while subscribers have a monthly download limit and can purchase more once they are exhausted. Suno also announced the introduction of a digital watermark on the generated songs, after a phase in which watermarking and fingerprinting had already been strengthened under the pressure of the lawsuits. Brody framed these measures as a barrier to streaming fraud and mass uploads to distributors, adding that it is still up to distributors and platforms to decide which content to host.
The opening on distribution moves in the opposite direction: songs created on Suno can become eligible for publication via Believe e TuneCorethat is, ending up in the same digital stores as traditional releases.
