AI Content and Ownership

Nothing you upload or create on Dhun.io becomes ours. We take no ownership share, no publishing cut, and no royalty. Our limited service permission covers storing, copying and processing your material to provide the operations you request; it does not give us a publishing share or a right to distribute your music as ours.

We do need permission to actually operate: to store your files, process them on our servers, and send them to the specific third-party services a tool requires. That permission is limited to running the service for you, and it ends when you delete the work.

We do not train models on your music.

If you bring us a recording — your vocal, your guitar, your mix — and we split its stems, tune it, de-noise it, mix it or master it, the result is yours. Processing does not change who wrote or performed something.

You are responsible for having the rights to what you upload. Uploading someone else's record to pull an acapella out of it does not give you the right to release that acapella.

For audio generated by AI rather than recorded by you, we cannot promise you own the copyright, and neither can anyone else. This is not caution for its own sake; it is the actual state of the law.

United States copyright requires human authorship. The Copyright Office does not register material that lacks it, and has refused registrations on that basis. A track produced purely from a text prompt may have no copyright at all — not yours, not ours, not the generation provider's.

Provider permissions and copyright are separate. Agreements may grant licences, assign rights the provider actually holds, impose conditions or restrict particular uses. Dhun currently calls SunoAPI.org as an intermediary for its Suno-labelled tools; do not assume that a consumer subscription agreement with Suno is the agreement governing that API transaction. Review the applicable terms for the specific output and intended use.

Human-authored writing, performance, selection, arrangement and edits may be protectable where they satisfy the applicable legal requirements. The extent of protection is assessed case by case; an amount of editing or a paid plan does not automatically establish copyright in every element.

It would be the easier sentence to write and it appears on plenty of competing products. It is a warranty we could not honour, and one a distributor or a rights holder could later hold us — and you — to.

You are better served by knowing where the line falls than by being reassured up to the point where it costs you a release.

Distribution services and rights-management systems have their own requirements for AI material, licences, disclosures and exclusive rights. Check the current rules for the destination you choose; Dhun does not guarantee distributor acceptance, registration with a performing-rights organisation or Content ID eligibility.

Failing to disclose is a risk to your distribution account independently of the copyright question.

This page describes how copyright currently treats AI-generated material and how we handle it. It is general information, not legal advice. If a release matters commercially, take advice from a lawyer practising in this area.