News Music streaming fraud inquiry launched by US Copyright Office Notice of inquiry arrives a day after Michael Smith sentenced to 18 months in prison
Analysis With a new CFO, three licensing deals, and $775M+ raised, what’s stopping $5.4B-valued Suno from an IPO? The signals pointing to the firm's potential stock market ambitions and the barriers it faces in getting there.
News Tencent Music integrated DeepSeek into its streaming service. Now parent company Tencent is among the biggest backers of the AI company’s $12B+ funding round (report) DeepSeek has been built into TME's AI songwriting tool, AI assistant, comment sections, and more
News Majors and BMG tell US Supreme Court not to let appeals court decision ‘radically disrupt copyright worldwide’ in songwriter termination rights case January 12 ruling held that termination under US law returns an author's rights across the world, and not only in the US
News Google picks Base for Music for its Gemini Startup Forum – as $1.7M-backed French company says it uses AI to predict music marketing ROI More than 100 startups taking part, from 17 countries, were selected from over 2,000 applications, according to Google
News Adriana Sein joins Believe as President, Americas Exec most recently served as SVP & Global Head of Artist & Market Development at WMG's ADA
News The MLC has paid out more than $4.2B to songwriters and publishers to date – and will begin market share distributions of unmatched and unclaimed royalties in April 2027 Nashville-headquartered org confirmed the figure at its Annual Membership Meeting last Tuesday (September 29)
News Suno faces investigation in Italy over terms of service The watchdog's concerns include price changes, account terminations, US-based arbitration, and a content license that it says requires users to waive their moral rights
News UMG is now managing 130+ artists in Southeast Asia Granite spoke during a fireside session at the Music Matters strand of the All That Matters conference in Singapore on October 5
Analysis A US appeals court has rejected a ‘fair use’ defense over AI training. What does it mean for the labels’ fight with Suno? The US Court of Appeals ruled for Thomson Reuters and against AI legal research company ROSS Intelligence on September 29
News ElevenLabs valuation doubles to $22B – four times that of AI music rival Suno ElevenLabs completed a USD $300 million employee tender offer at a valuation of $22 billion.
News Oasis archive recordings pulled from auction as band take legal action against former sound engineer The claim was filed in the High Court in London on Tuesday (September 29)
News Warner sells EMP, the merch business it acquired for $180M in 2018, to whynow, owned by Mick Jagger’s son Gabe Jagger whynow is a London-headquartered media and commerce company
News Absolute Label Services opens AI-powered Anthology business management ‘Music OS’ to indie sector: ‘Infrastructure is the next logical thing to democratize’ White label business management platform launches with Cherry Red Records and Blue Raincoat Music as its first named customers.
News US appeals court rejects ‘fair use’ defense over AI training – as Thomson Reuters wins copyright case backed by RIAA and NMPA US federal appeals court has upheld a ruling that an AI company's copying of protected material to build its training data was not fair use.