Universal Music Group sued DistroKid on Tuesday, Sept. 15 in Manhattan federal court, alleging the distributor valued at more than $2 billion floods streaming platforms with "mass AI-generated, SEO-op…
Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine, co-founders of Beats Electronics and Beats Music, expressed strong support for AI in music creation in a New York Times interview published Aug. 23, with Dre calling AI a 'ne…
Apple Music will require labels, distributors, and other content providers to tag tracks with AI Transparency Tags when AI created a material portion of the content, with visible 'Made With AI' labels…
Apple Music will begin labeling songs derived from AI platforms with a “Made With AI” tag later this year, requiring record labels and distributors to disclose when a material portion of a track was c…
BMG and Suno announced a licensing deal on Tuesday (Aug. 11) that allows BMG's recorded and publishing works to be used for derivative works on Suno's platform, with artists and songwriters required t…
Spotify announced a new 'AI Persona' badge to label AI-generated artists, rolling out in mid-September, with music from tagged artists excluded from personalized recommendations. Creators can self-dis…
Universal Music Group, Sony Music, and Warner Music Group, along with other major labels, proposed global principles requiring songs to be 'substantially human made' to qualify for official music char…
A Munich Regional Court ruled July 31 that AI music generator Suno violated copyright by memorizing and reproducing six songs represented by German collecting society GEMA, including Alphaville's 'For…
A threat actor breached AI music generator Suno by compromising a single employee with the Shai-Hulud worm, then used harvested GitHub and cloud credentials to access the company's source code, custom…
Thinking Machines released Inkling, a 975B-parameter open-weights multimodal model with native audio support, marking the largest open-weight model with such capability and positioning it as an Americ…
A hacker breached AI music startup Suno and leaked source code revealing the company trained its model by scraping millions of songs from YouTube, Deezer, Genius, and Pond5, including over 2 million Y…
The RIAA, Grammys, SAG-AFTRA and other music industry groups launched a new labeling program to indicate whether a song is AI-generated or AI-assisted, aiming to provide transparency for fans on strea…
More than 16,000 people, including SAG-AFTRA members and the general public, have signed an open letter demanding Congress pass the NO FAKES Act, a bipartisan bill that would create a federal intellec…