AI music startup Suno is one of two companies (Udio being the other) being sued by labels for copyright infringement. That hasn’t halted Suno’s product roadmap however: this week it rolled out a feature called ‘Covers’ that is sure to attract keen interest from the music industry.
“This feature lets you take anything from a simple voice memo to a fully-produced track and transform it into an entirely new style, all while preserving the original melody that makes it uniquely yours,” is how Suno introduced the new feature in a blog post. It’s about keeping a melody but “adapting the track to a different style”.
A sample playlist shows how this can work for genres including blues, house, folk and gospel. The feature is currently in early-access beta for Suno’s subscribers. The emphasis in the announcement is on people doing this with their own original music that they have created.
What’s to stop people importing a copyrighted track? When they use Suno’s ‘Upload Audio’ feature they are asked to confirm that they “own or exclusively control all rights” to the recording that they are uploading…
