Spotify reported 777 million total users and 300 million paid premium subscribers in its latest quarter, but its stock price plunged 8% as the company disclosed increased expenses tied to AI-driven fe…
Spotify Technology S.A. announced during its second-quarter earnings call on Tuesday that Merlin, a licensing partner for independent labels and distributors, has joined Universal Music Group (UMG) in…
IFPI began applying new eligibility rules for AI-assisted recordings across the official charts it directly manages on July 30, following a July 29 proposal from a coalition of nearly a dozen record c…
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…
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 coalition of record labels including Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, and Sony Music proposed new guidelines on Wednesday requiring AI-generated tracks to be "substantially human made" and…
Sony Music Entertainment has filed a lawsuit against AI music platform Udio, alleging illegal copying of over 30,000 songs from artists including Beyoncé, Harry Styles, and Elvis Presley to train its …
Sony Music has filed a new lawsuit against AI music generator Udio, alleging it copied more than 30,000 songs from artists including Beyoncé, Michael Jackson, and Elvis Presley without permission to t…
Sony Music Entertainment filed a new lawsuit against AI music generator Udio, alleging the startup illegally copied over 30,000 songs from artists including Beyoncé, Harry Styles, and Elvis Presley to…
The University of Tennessee Research Foundation has sued Anthropic, alleging that the AI company's coding assistant Claude Code infringes two patents covering neural-network technology. Filed on July …
Sony Music Entertainment filed a fresh copyright lawsuit against AI music startup Udio on Monday, covering 30,117 recordings and seeking up to $150,000 per track in statutory damages. The suit argues …
A federal judge capped Sony Music Entertainment's copyright lawsuit against AI startup Udio at 333 songs, denying Sony's bid to add 30,442 more recordings. Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein of the Southern D…
Sony Music Entertainment filed a new lawsuit against AI music generator Udio on Monday, accusing it of infringing the copyright of more than 30,000 songs, including Elvis Presley's 'Hound Dog' and Bey…
Suno, the AI music generation platform, raised over $400 million at a $5.4 billion valuation, more than doubling its valuation in seven months, as copyright lawsuits from Sony Music and Universal Musi…
Menlo Ventures partner Amy Wu Martin led the firm into a $250 million fundraise for AI music platform Suno last fall and re-upped in a $400 million round in June at a $5.4 billion valuation, betting t…
A security breach at AI music generator Suno has exposed internal source code revealing the company scraped 2,013,545 YouTube Music clips and over 380,000 total hours of audio from nine platforms incl…
A hacker breached AI music platform Suno in November 2025, exposing source code that reveals the company scraped millions of music clips from platforms including YouTube Music, Genius, Deezer, and sto…
A hacker obtained Suno's source code and customer data, revealing the AI music generator scraped millions of songs from YouTube Music, Deezer, and Genius to train its models, according to a 404 Media …
A coalition led by the Recording Industry Association of America and the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry is pushing streaming platforms like Spotify and Apple Music to adopt a co…
AI music startup Suno hired former Atlantic Records executive Grace James as VP and head of artist marketing and editorial, and former YouTube head Christian Bowne as head of music business developmen…