A group of independent musicians is suing Google, alleging it illegally used songs they uploaded to YouTube to train its Lyria 3 AI music model. Google has moved to dismiss, arguing the artists can't prove their specific tracks were used and that, either way, YouTube's terms of service grant it a broad license to reproduce and make derivative works from uploads. Google won't confirm whether Lyria was trained on YouTube content specifically, even though it has already acknowledged using YouTube uploads to train Gemini and Veo, with The Verge reading the refusal as a calculated move to keep plausible deniability while litigation is pending.
