Court declines to dismiss independent artists’ copyright class action against Udio – but moves the case from Illinois to New York

A federal judge has declined to dismiss the copyright class action brought against AI music generator Udio by a group of independent artists. Judge Sara L. Ellis of the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois denied Uncharted Labs‘ motion to dismiss the lawsuit “without prejudice to refiling in the Southern District of New York.” The complaint challenges what it calls Udio‘s practice of “systematically copying and storing works by independent artists to fuel a commercial, mass-market music-generation engine.” Udio also pointed to an earlier class action already before the Southern District of New York. The transfer places the artists’ case in the same district where Udio has faced the major record companies.