AI-generated tracks pass half of Deezer's daily uploads
Deezer says roughly 90,000 fully generated tracks arrived per day at the June peak — an upload statistic, not a measure of listening.
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SOCAN is testing whether AI attribution can support payment
The Canadian rights organization and Musical AI will test recognition technology on a limited set of generated outputs.
Sony Music files a second copyright lawsuit against Udio
The new complaint covers recordings a judge did not allow Sony to add to the original case. The claimed scale is large; the allegations remain untested.
Symphonic artists get an opt-in route for licensed AI use
A partnership with Sureel AI promises permissions, tracking and contribution-based payments. The design is promising; its performance still needs evidence.
Australia puts creator protection inside its new national AI office
The Office of AI promises strong copyright protections for Australian creators. The political position is clear; the licensing and enforcement mechanisms are not.
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Indonesia's copyright rewrite would regulate AI style imitation
The draft would require disclosure, protect sufficiently human AI-assisted work and restrict imitation of a creator's distinctive style.
Roland and Neutone put user-trained AI models into a live effects box
Project LYDIA is a hardware prototype for building and performing with neural audio models without a laptop on stage.
The Rolling Stones draw their AI line at imitation
Mick Jagger and Keith Richards accept AI as a creative tool, but reject systems that manufacture a new song in their style or voice.
Lorde's Spotify dispute shows why AI song summaries need artist controls
About the Song attached the wrong concert story to “Current Affairs.” The correction fixed one card, not the product's larger authorship problem.
A Suno breach exposes more detail about its training-data pipeline
Reporting based on leaked code points to YouTube Music, Deezer, Genius and several public audio libraries. The breach also affected customer information.
AI MusicCon treated AI music as culture, law and education — not only software
The Cologne programme put rights attribution, cultural diversity, teaching and open-source practice alongside product demonstrations.
BandLab acquires Aiode and its licensed musician models
Aiode builds audio-to-audio parts from recordings made with session musicians — a different starting point from prompt-to-song generation.
How content farms invented a court case — and who repeated it
"Bartz v. SoundAI" is cited across AI-music explainers as a Second Circuit fair-use precedent. It does not exist. We checked every docket.