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Believe and TuneCore won’t feed music to Suno without giving artists choice to opt in: ‘The artist must consent first, period.’

Denis Ladegaillerie details two-stage opt-in process for artists who want (and don't want) to have their music provided to Suno

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Universal Music Group sues DistroKid, accusing it of ‘unlawful practices’ and ‘flooding platforms with AI-generated slop’

Key parts of UMG's suit center on DistroKid's alleged involvement with AI-made music.

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ElevenLabs launched Music v2.5 – shortly after announcing its UMG licensing deal.

The model went live on September 11 and is now the default “for prompted and reference generation” in ElevenMusic, the company said.

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Suno hires ex-Hightouch CFO Cherry Miao as its first finance chief: ‘Music is one of the things that makes humans human’

Miao oversaw finance, legal, data and revenue operations at Hightouch, and had been both a customer and an angel investor in the company before joining it.

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In addition to its vinyl move, now Suno is readying a merch store.

Suno is using Fourthwall for the service, which runs stores for brands including New York Magazine, Vox, and Eater

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DistroKid, distributing ‘roughly 40%’ of all new music, hasn’t yet signed IFPI’s new anti-fraud standards… unlike CD Baby.

DistroKid has not yet signed up, despite its claim to distribute "roughly 40%" of "all new music in the world" for over 4 million artists.

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From ElevenLabs’ $11B UMG deal to HYBE Weverse’s data breach… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up

The biggest headlines from the past few days...

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ElevenLabs’ $11B valuation is more than twice the size of Suno’s. It just struck a global AI music deal with UMG.

ElevenLabs will launch an AI-powered music platform for fans under the deal, with the two companies also jointly developing AI audio products for artists and songwriters