Suno's legal filing acknowledging copyrighted training data landed as a confirmation of what artists had argued for years — that the company's models were built on their catalogs without consent. The fair use defense Suno attached to that admission is legally plausible but culturally corrosive: it frames the use of artists' life work as a transformative act that required no permission and owes no compensation. What reframed the moment was the Timbaland announcement. Naming a producer of his commercial stature as a strategic advisor [14], in the same period as…