Google Becomes Indie Artists’ Fourth AI Music Copyright Target

Google LLC is the fourth AI developer a group of independent artists has sued claiming copyright infringement over unauthorized use of their songs to build a commercial music generator.

Google’s Lyria 3 music generator, available within its Gemini artificial intelligence product, used 44 million clips and 280,000 hours of the artists’ music without permission, according to the proposed class action filed March 6 in the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Lyria 3 was released Feb. 18, it said.

The artists, led by Chicago-based firefighter and songwriter David Woulard, have filed three other putative class actions over ...