Google Claims It Doesn’t Need AI Licenses to Train on Millions of Artist Tracks. Seriously?
In a heated legal battle against indie musicians, Google just dropped a very sobering bomb. Accusations of content infringement for ...
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UMG and Sony seek to add over 61k recordings to Suno lawsuit after discovery reveals AI trained on ‘millions’ of their copyrighted tracks
Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment have asked a federal court for permission to add more than 61,000 copyrighted ...
Believe and TuneCore are blocking distribution of Generative AI tracks made on ‘pirate studios’ like Suno – while inking new partnerships with ElevenLabs and Udio
Believe has unveiled a significant update to its Generative AI policy – one that simultaneously hardens the company’s stance on ...
From 75,000 AI tracks hitting Deezer daily to UMG’s copyright lawsuit against Quince… it’s MBW’s weekly round-up
Welcome to Music Business Worldwide’s Weekly Round-up – where we make sure you caught the five biggest stories to hit ...
TikTok’s distro service SoundOn cracks down on manipulated audio via ACRCloud partnership to intercept unauthorized tracks
SoundOn, the music distribution and promotion platform owned by TikTok, is cracking down on unauthorized uploads by deploying a new ...
TuneCore says that tracks within its ‘Accelerator’ platform have generated 50B streams since 2023
TuneCore, the Believe-owned digital distribution platform for self-releasing artists, says its Accelerator program, has helped generated 50 billion streams for ...
Slipstream acquires Hollywood production music library Megatrax, adding 200,000 tracks to its catalog
Production music licensing platform Slipstream has acquired Los Angeles-based music library Megatrax, which represents over 200,000 tracks and gives it ...
Google Gemini can now generate AI music tracks up to 30 seconds long
AI image generators have flooded our feeds, text models are everywhere, and now Google is officially stepping into AI music ...
60,000 AI tracks hit Deezer daily as platform moves to license detection tech to wider music industry
Deezer is now receiving over 60,000 fully AI-generated tracks every day – and is moving to license its AI-detection technology ...
Spotify, Sony, Warner and UMG sue shadow library over the scraping of 86 million tracks
Back in December, Anna’s Archive attempted to “back up” Spotify, allegedly scraping the platform’s metadata and audio files in an ...
