Reservoir adds 318 songs to its Suno lawsuit and 290 lyrics to its Anthropic case, lifting its claim to $445.7 million

Reservoir just made both of its AI lawsuits bigger. On November 11, 2026, the publisher filed First Amended Complaints that add 318 songs to its case against Suno and 290 lyrics to its case against Anthropic, 3 weeks after it sued both companies.

The Suno case now covers 1,368 compositions, up from 1,050. The Anthropic case covers the lyrics of 1,143, up from 853. At the maximum Reservoir asks for per work, the combined demand goes from $337.8 million to $445.7 million.

The longer song lists aren’t the only change. Against Suno, Reservoir also filed 34 recordings of Suno outputs that it says copy its songs.

How Reservoir’s claims against Suno and Anthropic add up to $445.7 million

Every song on the list carries 3 price tags, and Reservoir multiplies them by the count. The amended Suno complaint asks for up to $150,000 per song for willful copyright infringement, which for 1,368 songs is $205.2 million.

Then come 2 claims under the DMCA: $2,500 per work for getting around access controls like logins and paywalls, and $25,000 per work for stripping the title, writer and publisher data from the files. That adds another $37.6 million against Suno.

The amended Anthropic complaint runs the same math on 1,143 lyrics: $171.45 million for copyright, plus $31.4 million for the 2 DMCA claims.

Those numbers are ceilings, not awards. Reservoir asks for its actual damages and the companies’ profits first, with statutory damages as the alternative, and a court hasn’t tested any of it yet.

So who’s new on the Suno list? The 318 added songs sit in their own block at the end of Exhibit A. Seether frontman Shaun Welgemoed is credited on 37 of them, Bob Crewe on 17 and the Moody Blues’ John Lodge on 11, including “I’m Just a Singer (In a Rock and Roll Band).”

The 34 Suno outputs Reservoir filed as Exhibits B and C

The October complaint said Suno’s outputs copied Reservoir’s songs. The amended one brings the recordings. Exhibits B and C hold 20 and 14 recorded Suno outputs, which Reservoir lodged with the court by hand and links in the complaint as 2 Vimeo folders.

The first one it names is Exhibit B-1, a Suno output based on Evanescence’s “Bring Me To Life,” a song on Reservoir’s list. Reservoir says the output reprises the song’s vocal melody.

That’s aimed straight at Suno’s own words in another case. In its motion to dismiss Jason Isbell’s lawsuit, Suno told the court that “by design and in practice” it does not “reprise specific melodies from songs someone else wrote.”

Two more allegations are new. Reservoir says Suno “quietly” removed lyric search, the feature that let users “search for lyrics…and find the song,” less than a year after launching it and weeks after reports that its lyric model, ReMi, could “with very little effort” be made to “generate ‘full song’ lyrics.”

It also quotes the deleted X post by ex-Menlo Ventures principal C.C. Gong, the same post Universal and Sony got permission to depose her about: “I’ve personally shifted most of my listening to Suno.”

And Reservoir says that discovery “will undoubtedly show that Suno created additional outputs which infringe upon all the Works.”

What Reservoir changed in its Anthropic lyrics complaint

The Anthropic amendment is mostly a bigger number. The 3 claims are the same, the torrenting allegations about Library Genesis and PiLiMi are still in, and so are the Anthropic employee prompts Reservoir quotes, including “What are the lyrics to we found love by Calvin Harris?”

What moved is the reach of the output claim. Reservoir now says, on information and belief, that Claude “has created infringing output for all 1,143 of the Works, and likely every song in Reservoir’s catalog.” In October the same sentence said 853.

The judges changed, too. In the Suno case, Reservoir declined to go ahead before a magistrate judge, and the case was reassigned on October 30, so it now runs as 4:26-cv-12305-HSG.

The Anthropic case is now before District Judge Beth Labson Freeman, according to its CourtListener docket.

Reservoir’s lead lawyer is still Richard S. Busch, who also brings Round Hill’s lawsuits against Suno and Anthropic. Digital Music News counts at least a dozen legal fights Suno is in right now, and this one just got 32% more expensive on paper.

For any publisher whose catalog sits on the open internet, the math is the point: every song added to a list like this raises the ceiling by up to $177,500. I log every filing in the case on the Reservoir lawsuit tracker.