Music Business News: United States

Tyla producer Sammy SoSo hit with lawsuit over Grammy-winning hit ‘Water’

Lawsuit was filed by Olmo Zucca and Jackson LoMastro

GetReal Security raises $17.5m to combat AI deepfakes

GetReal says it 'specializes in the detection and mitigation of malicious generative AI threats'

Sony Music Publishing signs producer MTech to global deal

The deal covers MTech's future songs and catalog, which includes a number of Kendrick Lamar hits

Apple Music integrates with DJ apps to let subscribers mix their entire music library

Launch builds on Apple Music's previous DJ-focused initiatives

AI music remixing platform Hook raises $3m from Kygo’s Palm Tree Crew, The Raine Group and more

Hook’s unique selling proposition is that it offers a remedy to the proliferation of unlicensed content on social media

Chappell Roan producer Daniel Nigro’s Amusement Records to operate as ‘central label venture’ within Universal as part of expanded partnership with UMG

Amusement to operate as a "central label venture" within UMG

Music publishers ‘remain very confident’ of winning Anthropic case and will ‘vigorously pursue’ monetary damages

'This case remains vital to protecting creators from the wholesale theft of their copyrighted works by Anthropic and other AI companies.'

UMG’s AI training injunction request shot down by judge in Anthropic lawsuit – but music publishers can now gather more evidence from platform

Licensing deals between OpenAI and news publishers suggest damages could be measured if Universal wins, says judge