Josh Gruss

person · CEO and founder, Round Hill MusicCredibility: 55%

Why this score? Founder and chief executive of Round Hill Music, an independent music publisher and catalogue investor and the plaintiff in the August 2026 copyright suits against Suno and Anthropic. Reliable on his own company's holdings and filings; a self-interested litigant when characterising the law or the defendants' conduct, so his claims about what infringement is worth are recorded as advocacy and cross-checked against the documents. Baseline set at the level already used for other rightsholder-plaintiffs in this thread (Getty Images, Concord Music Group at 0.55-0.58).

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Round Hill is not against artificial intelligence but against building billion-dollar businesses on other people's creative work while paying the creators nothing; licensing protects the legal owners of the raw material, and the company intends to take both cases to trial rather than accept a resolution that leaves songwriters and artists without their share.^?

— Josh Gruss · Aug 17, 2026

Topic: state of ai/law and governance/ai copyright

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Context: Untested. The premise that the defendants paid nothing is contested rather than established: Suno licensed Warner's catalogue in November 2025 and BMG's five days before this filing, both settling prior use. The intent to try both cases is checkable but undated — every comparable matter on this desk so far has ended in settlement or dismissal, not verdict.