A new interactive tool, "Can I Release This?", lets music creators check the release rules for AI-generated tracks by answering questions about their goals, AI tools and dates, release market, and per…
Sony Music Publishing, Warner Chappell Music and 33 affiliated publishers filed a 48-page copyright complaint against Anthropic PBC, CEO Dario Amodei and co-founder Benjamin Mann in the Northern Distr…
A Making a Scene article and podcast published in August by Richard L'Hommedieu warns that a single "opt in" button can grant AI companies rights to an artist's finished recording, underlying composit…
Bandcamp, Qobuz and Hungary's performers' rights organization EJI have each adopted a different policy for AI-generated music, according to a report on the three approaches. Bandcamp bans music or aud…
Russia enacted Federal Law No. 243-FZ on large foundation models, signed on 26 July and published the same day, with most provisions taking effect on 1 September 2026 and rules on content notices, mod…
Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV allowed Universal Music Group and Sony to amend their copyright complaint against Suno on 18 August, adding a Digital Millennium Copyright Act anti-circumvention claim that S…
The Korea Music Copyright Association (KOMCA) withdrew its AI-assisted music registration rule on 25 August, when its board voted to rescind the amendments governing work registration and related trus…
The Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) will stop admitting recordings generated wholly by AI to its official charts from 31 August, while keeping AI-assisted tracks eligible when humans …
Four preprints published in August 2025 examine distinct failure modes in AI-music detection, with the BAMM paper reporting that a detector scoring an F1 of 0.992 on clean samples fell to 0.472 in the…