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You wrote the words and the melody. You sang a rough demo into your phone, uploaded it to Suno, and it came back with a full band behind you. So is it still your song?
Josh answers the question by taking the song apart. A song is a stack: composition at the bottom, then arrangement, performance, and finish. The layers tell you what you own. The decisions you make along the way tell you what you authored. Every rejected take, corrected lyric, and arrangement sent back for another pass is you writing.
He walks through what Suno's terms, effective September 3, 2026, say about uploads and generated output. Then he covers the full demo-upload workflow step by step, naming what you keep and what you hand over at each stage:
- The demo goes in.
- Suno builds the arrangement.
- You pull stems.
- You replace the AI vocal with your own.
- You mix and master.
He closes on the one habit that turns the question from a feeling into a record: a provenance folder for every song.
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