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
Analysis News Can AI-generated content be copyrighted? Here’s what a new report from the US Copyright Office says… A work that combines human creativity with AI can be copyrighted, so long as there is a “sufficient” amount of human expression
News UMG’s Frank Briegmann advocates for robust copyright protection on ‘AI and Content Creation’ panel at Davos Exec spoke on the 'AI and Content Creation' panel at the World Economic Forum event
News YouTube partners with Creative Artists Agency on AI deepfake recognition tools “CAA’s clients’ direct experience with digital replicas... will be critical in shaping a tool that responsibly empowers and protects creators"
News Merlin tells tech companies not to use its members’ music to train AI without authorization Using Merlin members' music to train AI requires “explicit written authorization,” the organization has declared
News Market for Gen AI outputs to be worth over $16bn annually by 2028, but it could ‘cannibalize’ 24% of music creators’ revenues, CISAC predicts New report says music creators alone stand to lose $10.5bn of their revenue by 2028
News Are Spotify’s changes to third-party developer access meant to combat AI scraping? Third-party app developers have been cut off from numerous data points within Spotify's platform
News Musical.AI teams up with China’s Kanjian to deliver licensed music to AI developers Musical.AI says it has built the world’s first secure platform for rights management in AI training
