don't lease what you made!

you generated it. you shaped it. you curated the prompts. why rent your own creation back from someone else?

licensing ai music from platforms like suno and mureka is a form of exploitation for their profit and ownership, going against what copyright stands for.

if you want to join us in preventing this exploitation further, put #fuckaimusiclicensing in your social bio or on your website.

even better: if you are an active ai artist with tracks out on spotify or others, add #fuckaimusiclicensing and a link to this website (https://ai.lumanesence.co.uk) to your artist bio

why bother?

i (thomas hall) have been fascinated by ai music and it's development since august 2024. seeing how artificial intelligence can make such things leaves me to believe that ai, while seen as bad, can be used for good things like expression, that platforms like suno ai have properly allowed for. it was from that passion that i developed that i started taking it somewhat seriously alongside college, with my peak being in august 2025 when "das ist berlin" released into spotify via routenote, and soon after, the revenue started racking up. not long after i closed my routenote account in january of 2026, i recieved my first and only paycheck from them of £27 (rounded to the nearest £1), and it blew my mind how i had made that money just from writing a few lines into a web app on my computer!

however, not long after i started doing this, around november 2024, suno started to issue a message to those wanting to download music they had generated via their platform. below is a brief example of one of these messages:

this was suno's only way of fighting back. they did trial a 3-download-a-month system, but that penultimately failed after about 2 weeks of it being instated, especially considering you could bypass that restriction by using a third-party suno downloader, or alternatively, using suno's official mobile app, and then using a platform such as snapdrop or intel unison to transfer the file to your computer to prepare for distribution. suno also has written an official post in their knowledgebase regarding ownership, and it's absolutely god-awful. here is a quote from said post:

If you are using the free version of Suno (our Basic tier), we retain ownership of the songs you generate

suno claims, in this specific quote, that they retain the ownership of any user generated content on their platform. THIS IS NOT TRUE, and i'll explain why now. anything that you create on-or-offline (be it a photo, story or similar), it is immediately copyrighted to you, and hence, you can make money off of it. as an example: say i took a photo of a bus that i really liked, that is under my copyright, i retain ownership, and i can make money off of it if i want to as well. this is EXACTLY what is going on here with suno - since you made it in your name, with your account, every song you make on suno is automatically owned by you, copyrighted to you, and you can make money off of it without the risk of penalization.

unfortunately, this is the bit that suno doesn't appear to understnd. by "retaining ownership" to user-generated content, they are bending copyright law and locking the user's content behind a monthly/yearly fee. i wouldn't particularly say they are breaking it per se, but they are definetly trying push it to make it seem like that to a certain extent.