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UK-based physical distributor Proper Music acquired by Netherlands’ Artone

Holding company Proper Music Group goes into administration; trading companies will no longer be affiliated with Proper Group AG (formerly Utopia Music)

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$500m-valued Suno has admitted training AI on copyrighted music. That hasn’t stopped Amazon from adding its controversial tech to Alexa

The new voice assistant is also integrated with the Claude chatbot from Anthropic, an AI company facing a copyright lawsuit from music publishers

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Court orders identity of 100 alleged music pirates to be revealed in record companies’ lawsuit against Altice USA

The RIAA has been dragged into a lawsuit pitting dozens of music companies against a major US internet provider

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Record companies in India want to join a lawsuit against ChatGPT maker OpenAI

News organizations, book publishers, and now music companies want to join a copyright infringement suit against OpenAI being heard by a court in Delhi

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Is DeepSeek training its AI on copyrighted music without permission?

The international trade group for music publishers says DeepSeek replicates the entire lyrics to copyrighted songs

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Using copyrighted content to train AI without permission is not ‘fair use’, US court rules in Thomson Reuters case

However, the ruling might not apply to the music industry’s lawsuits against generative AI developers

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Confirmed: Warner buys majority stake in Tempo (just as MBW told you it would).

Warner Music Group has today (February 6) confirmed that it has acquired a controlling stake in Tempo Music Investments aka Tempo Music. Tempo’s previous owner, Providence Equity Partners, holds on to a minority stake in Tempo as part of the deal. MBW first told you about the Warner acquisition last month. The final deal is … Continued

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Spotify slams the NMPA’s takedown action over alleged unlicensed songs in podcasts: ‘This is a press stunt.’

Spotify confirms that is investigating the takedown requests