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Robert Kyncl tells WMG shareholders: AI is music’s next growth engine, not its downfall

Warner boss also signals major pricing opportunity ahead for rightsholders on DSPs
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Donald Trump fires top US copyright official – sending concerning message over music and AI

Timing of Shira Perlmutter's dismissal, following a report sympathetic to copyright owners on AI, will raise worries over Trump's closeness to Big Tech
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Popular artists to get ‘royalty boost’ on Deezer as platform readies ‘artist-centric’ model with Universal Music Group

Deezer and UMG announce the launch of what they call the "first comprehensive artist-centric streaming model"
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Meta just released an AI music generator that was trained on 20,000 hours of licensed music

Researchers at Facebook's parent company have developed an AI text-to-music generator called MusicGen
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As AI-made music explodes, Deezer lays out strategy to identify AI tracks and ‘weed out illegal and fraudulent content’ on its platform

Deezer is building a set of tools to detect AI-generated content on its platform
Analysis News

There are now 120,000 new tracks hitting music streaming services each day

A total of 10.08 million new songs uploaded to the likes of Spotify, YouTube Music and other music streaming services in the first three months of the year alone
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Google trained ‘experimental AI’ to generate high-fidelity songs from text prompts. Now it’s available to the public

Model was trained on five million audio clips, amounting to 280,000 hours of music at 24 kHz
Analysis

The Boomy/Spotify streaming fraud debacle proves ‘pro-rata’ must go – urgently.

Is that the kind of music business you signed up for? Because it's the one you've got.
News

AI music app Boomy has created 14.4m tracks to date. Spotify just deleted a bunch of its uploads after detecting ‘stream manipulation’.

Today's news comes a week after Daniel Ek, founder and CEO of Spotify, announced to investors that his company was working with major record companies to quell the threat posed by AI music
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Deadmau5-founded Pixelynx launches KORUS AI music project in partnership with Beatport

Launch arrives five months after Pixelynx was acquired by Animoca Brands
Analysis

Universal Music Group: Yes, ripping off Drake’s voice for that AI track was illegal – and we’re certain of it.

Sir Lucian Grainge and Michael Nash couldn't be more unequivocal: The rash of copycat AI voices, they say, is 'clearly illegal'

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