News Musixmatch launches Music Lens, an AI agent that ‘transforms’ catalogs into ‘actionable insights’ for publishers, labels, and creators Musixmatch's new AI-powered Music Lens tool is 'built for - not on - the industry'
Analysis News 3 things you might have missed from Universal’s Q3 earnings call Music fans want to see AI improve their listening experience, not replace human artists, UMG's research found
News 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
Analysis News 3 things you might have missed in the major labels’ Suno lawsuit The record companies suing AI music-making platform Suno have turned up the heat on the startup tech company.
News AI companies accused of ‘largest domestic piracy of IP in our nation’s history’ at congressional hearing led by MAGA Republican At Meta, 'Mark Zuckerberg himself made the call' to pirate vast amounts of copyrighted material
News Universal Music applauds Cloudflare move to block ‘AI crawlers’ from accessing content without permission or compensation Cloudflare's move could create a new licensing marketplace for content owners and AI companies
News Court shoots down Sarah Silverman’s case against Meta’s AI – but declares using copyrighted works for training is NOT ‘fair use’ The latest ruling contradicts another ruling on AI and fair use, issued by a different judge in the same court just two days earlier
News Court rules Anthropic’s use of copyrighted books to train AI is ‘fair use’ – but it may not have much bearing on music rightsholders’ case against platform’s Claude Copyright owners can't prevent their works for being used for training, a California judge has ruled, but using pirated copies is another story
News Warner Music Brazil brings back voice of samba legend Cleber Augusto through AI Augusto lost his voice following throat cancer surgery more than two decades ago
Analysis News From Trump firing top copyright official to SoundCloud ‘fixing’ AI policy… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest stories from the past week – all in one place…
News SoundCloud addresses AI clause in terms of service, says it ‘has never used artist content to train AI models’ Fairly Trained founder Ed Newton-Rex spotted the update, which went largely unnoticed since it was rolled out in February 2024
News Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt: AI that is ‘as smart as the smartest artist’ will be here in 3 to 5 years Schmidt predicts AI that is 'as smart as the smartest mathematician, physicist, artist, writer, thinker, politician...'
News South Korea’s largest music copyright collective just banned registration of songs created with AI KOMCA’s decision comes at a time when lawmakers and courts around the world are grappling with the issue of copyrighting AI-made works
Analysis News From Amazon’s Suno tie-up to Kobalt’s new publishing platform… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The biggest stories from the past week – all in one place…
News HYBE’s AI voice cloning company Supertone unveils text-to-speech tool that can create a custom voice ‘in just 10 seconds’ Supertone says its tool includes safeguards to prevent it from being used in deepfakes