Reservoir Adds More Than 600 Songs to Copyright Suits Against Suno and Anthropic
Reservoir has added more than 600 songs to its copyright lawsuits against the AI companies Suno and Anthropic, bringing the combined number of compositions in the two cases to 2,511. The amended complaints were filed on November 11, and Music Business Worldwide reported the expansion on November 13, 2026.
Reservoir is an independent music company based in New York City. It first sued both companies on October 21 in the US District Court for the Northern District of California. A copyright lawsuit asks a court to decide whether a song, or the rights to it, was used without permission.
The case against Suno now lists 1,368 works, up from 1,050 when it was first filed. The case against Anthropic now lists 1,143, up from 853. Reservoir says it owns 100 per cent of, or exclusively controls, the US copyrights in every work listed in each case.
The money at stake has grown too. Reservoir is asking for actual damages and the defendants' profits. As an alternative, it is seeking statutory damages of up to $150,000 for each work it says was willfully infringed. Statutory damages are fixed sums set by US law, which a copyright owner can claim instead of proving its exact losses.
Across three counts, the amounts pleaded now total just over $242.8 million against Suno and almost $202.9 million against Anthropic. That is a combined figure of just over $445.7 million. When the suits were filed in October, the combined figure was just under $337.8 million.
The amended Suno complaint also adds evidence. It introduces two exhibits, B and C, with 34 recorded examples of Suno outputs that Reservoir says directly infringe the works. The recordings are hosted in folders on Vimeo. One of them, Exhibit B-1, is linked to Evanescence's "Bring Me to Life". The complaint says that output reprises a specific vocal melody from the song.
These are claims in court filings. A judge has not ruled on them, and neither company has been found liable.
Suno faces a separate legal fight over a different issue. On November 3, the company asked a federal court in Boston to dismiss a proposed class action brought by Jason Isbell and three other musicians. A class action is a case filed on behalf of a larger group. The musicians' claim rests on right of publicity, the right to control how a person's name, voice or likeness is used commercially.
Reservoir was founded as a family-owned music publisher in 2007. A music publisher collects income from the songs it controls, and Reservoir's catalogue includes titles dating back to 1900. The company has offices in Los Angeles, Nashville, Toronto, London, Abu Dhabi and Mumbai.
The cases ask courts to settle how existing songs can be used in AI systems. Their outcome will depend on the court process still ahead.
