NVIDIA's VC Arm Tries to Stay Out of Suno Lawsuit Mess
Tech money wants out of the courtroom drama between AI companies and the major labels.

NVIDIA's venture capital arm is throwing up the defense shield in the Suno copyright fight. NVentures is asking the court to block UMG and Sony from making them testify, claiming they're just passive money on the sideline—not some puppet master pulling strings behind the AI music startup.
The argument: we already gave you everything. NVentures says they've turned over thousands of documents (6,324 to be exact, adding up to nearly 30,000 pages) and that should be enough. They're basically saying look, we funded the thing, but we're not running it—ask someone else.
This is the kind of legal chess move you see when a big player wants to keep their name out of the mud. Whether the court buys it is another story. The Suno case has become a lightning rod for the whole AI-in-music debate, and nobody with money wants their fingerprints all over it if they can help it.
Stay tuned on how this shakes out.
Read the full story at Music Business Worldwide → https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/nvidias-venture-arm-asks-court-to-block-umg-and-sonys-demand-for-testimony-in-suno-lawsuit-calling-itself-a-passive-minority-investor/
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