Musixmatch has revealed that Suno has become the first customer to adopt Sentinel, a real-time copyright detection service.
Sentinel was developed to help businesses identify and manage copyrighted music content at scale.
In a separate blog post here that coincided with the Musixmatch announcement, Suno CEO Mikey Shulman has shared the company's principles for "building the future of music responsibly".
Last week Suno was hit with a copyright infringement ruling in Germany following legal action by GEMA.
In the blog post, Suno revealed that it plans to roll out new watermarking and fingerprinting tools and updated community guidelines.
"This is one of the most interesting moments music has experienced in decades," wrote Mikey Shulman. "The landscape will continue to evolve quickly, and many of the questions ahead are bigger than any one company. The best answers will come from artists, songwriters, labels, publishers, platforms, and technology companies all working together.
"We believe this moment has the potential to bring more people into making music, create new opportunities for artists, and strengthen the music ecosystem. Staying grounded in our principles, and continuing to listen, learn, and adapt, is how we'll navigate that change as we help build toward that future."
Musixmatch’s Sentinel is a music fingerprinting service designed for generative media and user-generated content (UGC) platforms. The proprietary technology identifies copyrighted material in high-volume production environments and can rapidly identify durable matches with millisecond-level latency.
“Sentinel provides an essential service that helps platforms make informed decisions about compliance, moderation, and user experiences before content is published or distributed,” said a statement.
We believe this moment has the potential to bring more people into making music, create new opportunities for artists, and strengthen the music ecosystem
Mikey Shulman
Suno has integrated Sentinel into its service to identify when copyrighted compositions, lyrics and music may be present. By providing instant detection and attribution scores, it provides greater visibility into copyrighted material within user prompts, helping to inform internal moderation, compliance and product decisions.
Sentinel claims to use the world’s largest proprietary music database, which is utilised by more than 250,000 rights-holders and music publishers across more than 250 languages, to identify even partial use of copyrighted works in milliseconds. The system integrates with existing platforms via API and is designed for high-volume, real-time production environments.
The adoption of Sentinel by Suno comes as AI-powered creation tools continue to grow rapidly with new music licensing deals in place.
Rio Caraeff, co-president Musixmatch, said: “Suno is enabling extraordinary new levels of creativity and expression, but the broader landscape calls for robust infrastructure to help platforms understand what is being created and whether copyrighted material is being submitted. Sentinel was purpose-built to provide that visibility at the highest level of quality and hyper-scaler production readiness. We’re delighted that Suno is the first platform to adopt Sentinel, as part of their broader approach to responsible AI innovation.”
Phil Castro, general counsel of Suno, said: “As AI technology continues to evolve, building products responsibly is critical. One of our guiding principles is to ensure our tools enable original music creation, not imitation, and Musixmatch has been a key partner in helping us identify and prevent misuse. Adding Sentinel will only strengthen our capabilities for protecting artists and human creativity, and is one of several measures we’re adopting to further support creatives while combatting fraud and abuse.”
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