Who owns AI-generated music?

Before releasing an AI-assisted song, answer three different questions: what rights you hold in the inputs, what your provider permits you to do with its output, and which parts of the finished work qualify for copyright protection. A subscription receipt does not answer all three.

Processing a recording through tuning, noise removal, mixing or mastering does not transfer your existing rights to Dhun. But making the recording yourself does not necessarily clear a composition, sample or other performance contained in it. Keep permission records for material you did not create.

Separating a commercial song into stems changes its form, not the permissions needed to use it. A new mix or an isolated vocal can still contain protected material.

A provider agreement can grant a licence, assign rights the provider holds, impose conditions or restrict a use. Read the agreement that governs the particular service and output. An assignment cannot create copyright in material that is not eligible for it.

For example, Suno’s consumer terms describe an assignment of its rights in eligible paid-tier output, subject to conditions. That is different from saying every output has exclusive copyright. Dhun’s Suno-labelled tools currently call the intermediary SunoAPI.org; do not assume a direct consumer Suno subscription agreement governs an API transaction with that intermediary.

The U.S. Copyright Office’s AI guidance treats human authorship as central to copyright protection. Protectable human contributions can coexist with generated material in one work. Prompts alone do not establish authorship of every expressive detail in a generated result.

Keep original recordings, lyrics, arrangements and meaningful edit history. They help explain your contribution. A substantial human contribution does not automatically give you exclusive rights over all underlying generated material or someone else’s source recording.

Distributors and rights-management services set their own requirements for licences, AI disclosure and exclusive rights. Confirm the current requirements for the service you intend to use. Dhun does not guarantee distributor acceptance or Content ID eligibility.

Dhun takes no publishing share or distribution royalty in your music. Its limited service permission lets it store and process material for the operations you request. For generated music, review the applicable provider terms and our AI content policy before commercial use.

This is general information, not a determination of rights in a particular song. For a commercially significant release or a dispute, obtain advice based on the actual material and agreements.