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
Analysis News OpenAI just won a copyright battle brought by two news outlets. What could this mean for the music industry’s lawsuits against AI firms? Some observers say the ruling weakens music companies' claims against AI developers, but the OpenAI case is very different from the music cases
Interviews Paradise Worldwide wants to help Gen AI platforms become licensed – and get rightsholders paid in the process Company claims to be the "only Independent All Rights Distributor" with its own AI department
News Suno, with a $500m valuation, has admitted training its AI on copyrighted music. It just named Timbaland as a strategic advisor. 'We're going to open up the floodgates for generations of artists to flourish on this new frontier.'
News GEMA proposes licensing model for AI-generated music GEMA proposes that authors should receive compensation beyond a one-time payment for training data
News will.i.am launches AI-powered RAiDiO.FYI that turns radio into interactive experience RAiDiO.FYI features AI personas that can personalize your radio consumption via the FYI.AI app
News AI music startup Lemonaide introduces new collab tool promising ‘ethical’ AI models Lemonaide wants to ensure producers "have their own say and agency over the use of their data as they create new AI-powered revenue streams”
News Universal Music strikes strategic agreement with AI startup ProRata, which just raised $25m for a chatbot and tech to attribute and compensate content owners ProRata.ai has invented tech that it claims enables gen AI platforms to accurately attribute and share revenues on a per-use basis with content owners
Analysis News How the ‘COPIED Act’ could make it unlawful to train AI using copyrighted material without permission… A new front has opened in the battle between IP owners and AI companies who would use copyrighted IP to train AI without permission
News 25% of music producers are now using AI, survey says – but a majority shows strong resistance A majority of producers indicated they have concerns about losing control of their music.
News You can now make takedown requests for AI-generated YouTube videos that mimic your likeness The video platform is working to mitigate the worst impacts of AI content, even as it works to develop AI tools
News Warner Music notifies tech firms that they need permission to use WMG content to train their AI models European Union rules require copyright holders to expressly opt out of having their IP used in data mining.
News TuneCore unveils AI-powered mastering service for indie artists, with a fee of $5 per track The service is aimed at self-releasing artists who otherwise wouldn't have the means to access professional mastering