So many people on here seem to release their music to YouTube and Spotify. I'd love to do this too but I'm held back by the possibility of accidental melody infringement and being sued (appreciate a song would need to go big for being sued to become likely, but going big is also a motivation for wanting to release in the first place, so I wouldn't want to simultaneously hope for and dread the very same thing).
All the lyrics are my own and the melodies are carefully selected from sometimes hundreds of attempts and narrowed down iterations. Being in the UK, I'm confident I could hold the copyright to the songs, since our rules around that are a bit different to the US. Certainly the lyrics as a minimum, but likely the whole output too, based on my understanding. I just worry the AI will have generated something very similar or even taken samples from something else. The Terms of Service with Suno add to my concerns.
What precautions do people take, if any? I looked into establishing a company and releasing through that to limit liability to a business, but as the songs were made with a personal account, there is still that initial contract with Suno in place even if I transfer commercial rights to the company. If I setup a new account with Suno held by the company, then the chance of regenerating the same "magic" in the songs is very unlikely, and I wouldn't be able to cover from one account to another either.
I've looked into MIPPIA and did a free trial. This didn't help though because it either flagged loads of irrelevant songs in completely different genres and languages that sound nothing like the same, even in high percentage segments, or it found something that does have some degree of chord similarity in patches but to my ear doesn't sound the same, but how can I judge? Someone else might deem that there is enough similarity in that 7 second segment that it constitutes an infringement.
Shazam and content ID are only really any good for exact matches, not finding similarities or small segment matches.
Insurance for this type of thing doesn't seem to be easily accessible, let alone affordable. Especially when the insurer knows AI involved.
I just find it so depressing that someone can independently and in good faith, release something that inadvertently sounds similar to another song for a few seconds, and ultimately some judge can then award tens of thousands or more in damages and legal costs. Potentially even leading to you going bankrupt and losing your home. It's totally disproportionate to me, and I know the risk is a real long shot but it's a risk that's still there all the same, so I take it seriously. Especially in the climate of anti AI music.