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3 things you might have missed about The MLC’s revived bundling fight with Spotify

The Mechanical Licensing Collective's legal battle with Spotify over audiobook bundling and royalty payments has entered a new phase following a series of October court filings.

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Australia rejects proposal that would have exempted AI training from copyright laws

The country is instead planning to move forward with a licensing regime for AI developers and rightsholders

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YouTube’s ‘twin engine of ads and subscriptions is firing on all cylinders,’ says Lyor Cohen, as platform makes $8bn+ payout to the music industry over the past year

The figure was shared by Lyor Cohen, YouTube’s Global Head of Music, at the Billboard Latin Music Conference in Miami on Wednesday.

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YouTube showcases new AI likeness detection tool

For now, the tool will be available to creators on YouTube, but it's widely expected something similar will roll out for the general public as well

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Live music discovery platform Bandsintown reaches 100m registered users

The company says it now has a network of over 700,000 registered artists and 65,000 venues and promoters.

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Major music publishers ink AI licensing deals with lyrics and music data company Musixmatch

Musixmatch says it will use the publishers' catalogs to build 'non-generative' AI tools

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Facing ‘stream-ripping’ allegations from labels, Suno & Udio weigh in on separate case to challenge ruling that makes YouTube downloading illegal

Now that the majors have accused Suno and Udio of stream-ripping, the AI companies are pushing to have the practice declared legal

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Spotify brings music recommendations to ChatGPT via new integration

Spotify Free and Premium users can now link their accounts to ChatGPT and receive personalized music and podcast recommendations directly within their ChatGPT conversations via a new integration.