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This is what regulatory pressure looks like in real time. Suno's legal exposure forced a retraining decision that degrades product flexibility but reduces risk. The new v6 probably sounds worse on edge cases where unlicensed data would have helped. For builders in other generative domains: licensing your training data upfront isn't optional anymore, it's the cost of operating.
Watermarking now, litigation-driven, reads as damage control rather than a proactive stance. For builders in generative media, this is a preview of what regulators and courts will eventually require industry-wide: expect watermarking mandates to move from voluntary PR gesture to compliance requirement within a year or two. Track how courts treat this as evidence of good faith versus how plaintiffs frame it as an admission of a problem.