Warner Music Group In The News

Tech startup RTM Audio launches AI music detector UAI, which issues a signed certificate with every verdict

RTM Audio was founded by mixing and mastering engineers Ohad Nissim, Teezio, and Calin Enache, alongside music attorney Matt Buser

Irving Azoff’s Music Artists Coalition among 31 groups warning against ‘misuse’ of artist and songwriter rights in AI deals

Orgs representing artists, songwriters and music managers issue open letter over AI deals

Major labels in Canada win site-blocking order targeting stream-ripping platforms – a first for the country’s music industry

ISPs are ordered to block stream-ripping domains including Y2mate.ws, YTmp3.lat, Savefrom.space, and Spowload.cc.

Adam Tiran named General Manager of Warner Music’s Africori as founder Yoel Kenan steps down as CEO

WMG was fully acquired Africori in 2025

NO FAKES: Senate panel backs bill that could cost platforms $750k per AI deepfake

The US Senate Judiciary Committee has advanced the NO FAKES Act

BMG/Concord merger approved by competition authorities in United States and Germany (report)

Deal cleared in US, Reuters reports, after official approval in Germany

A landmark bill targeting AI deepfakes faces a US Senate Judiciary Committee vote on June 18. Five things to know about the NO FAKES Act.

The bill would create, for the first time in US federal law, an intellectual property right in a person's voice and visual likeness.

Months after its AI virtual singer Wu AI-Hua went viral, Warner Music China doubles down on digital artists via strategic deal with Dream Maker

Dream Maker says it has developed more than 3,000 virtual singers