As of 2026, commercial rights for AI-generated music vary by platform: Suno Pro ($10/month) grants commercial rights to new songs, ElevenLabs Music Starter ($6/month) offers commercial use from an opt…
Suno, the AI song-generation platform, announced plans on Thursday to introduce watermarking, fingerprinting, and a new downloads policy to make AI-generated music more transparent, aiming to protect …
Suno, the AI music generation company, announced it will add watermarks to all audio outputs from its models to meet emerging industry standards for labeling AI content, according to a blog post by CE…
Suno, the AI music generation service, announced it will start watermarking and fingerprinting songs created on its platform, limit downloads, and update community guidelines to prevent copycat songs,…
Youngjun Choi, a choreographer behind K-pop routines for BTS and Seventeen, co-founded startup MVNT with CEO Joon Jung to build an AI system for programmable dance. MVNT, which raised $200,000 in seed…
GEMA, the German collecting society for composers, lyricists and music publishers, won most of its lawsuit against AI music startup Suno on July 31, 2026, when the Munich Regional Court I ruled that S…
A Munich court ruled that AI music generator Suno violated copyrights through both training and output, finding six songs reproducibly stored in Suno's models and rejecting both Germany's text-and-dat…
Playback singer Madhubanti Bagchi called current generative AI music tools "stupid" and "more annoying than unnerving," citing their lack of intentionality compared to human performance. Her remarks c…
A German court ruled that AI music startup Suno infringed copyrights by using music from GEMA's catalog without a license, requiring licenses for both AI model training and AI-generated music. The Mun…
The Munich Regional Court ruled that U.S. AI music company Suno committed copyright infringement under German law and, in an unprecedented extraterritorial ruling, determined that Suno's AI training i…
The Munich Regional Court ruled that Suno, a Massachusetts-based generative music platform, violated German and U.S. copyright law by training its AI on songs from GEMA's repertoire without a license.…
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 German court ruled that AI company Suno must pay copyright fees for using existing songs to train its AI music generator, marking the first such ruling in Europe. The Munich court sided with German …
A German court ruled that Suno, an AI music generator, violated copyright law by training its neural network on existing songs without authorization, marking one of the first major judicial decisions …
The Munich Regional Court ruled on 31 July that Suno, a Massachusetts-based AI music generator valued at around $5.4bn, infringed copyright by training on songs represented by GEMA, Germany's state-ma…
A German court ruled on July 31, 2026, that AI music company Suno infringed copyright by using copyrighted lyrics to train its models, in a case brought by German music publisher GEMA. The court order…
Google has released Lyria 3.5, a new music generation model available through Google Flow Music, which the company says offers richer melodic structures, better lyrics, and more expressive vocals. A u…
A developer building Hitou, a personalized song generation service, documented real-world failure modes of AI APIs that reached production. The team found that LLM API responses with status 200 and fi…
The Atlantic has created a searchable database revealing that music from 21 million artists, including Bad Bunny and Taylor Swift, was secretly used to train AI music generators like Suno and Udio. So…
Spotify faces criticism for not labeling AI-generated music on its platform, leading to confusion and the rise of third-party tools like SoullessMusic.com and SlopTracker.org that identify AI artists.…