News UMG’s Udio deal prompts questions from Irving Azoff and the Music Artists Coalition "Artists must have creative control, fair compensation and clarity about deals being done based on their catalogs,” said Azoff
News Universal Music settles Udio lawsuit, strikes deal for licensed AI music platform Both parties agreed to jointly develop a licensed AI music creation service set to launch in 2026.
News Udio’s bid to dismiss claims of ‘illegal scraping’ from YouTube contains ‘fatal flaws,’ record labels say If Udio gets its way, there will be no controls on copyrighted content made available to the public, record labels say
News Suno and Udio face another lawsuit from indie artists over AI training, echoing major labels’ stream-ripping allegations The AI firms are being accused of maintaining internal libraries of copied audio and lyric files that staff and contractors access for testing and other purposes.
News Facing ‘stream-ripping’ allegations from labels, Suno & Udio weigh in on separate case to challenge ruling that makes YouTube downloading illegal Now that the majors have accused Suno and Udio of stream-ripping, the AI companies are pushing to have the practice declared legal
News Piracy claims can’t be added to music publishers’ copyright case against Anthropic, says Judge US District Judge Eumi Lee found denies amendment to complaint
News Record labels could strike ‘landmark’ AI music licensing deals ‘within weeks,’ the FT reports Universal and Warner are reportedly nearing licensing deals with AI music companies, the FT reports
News After ‘stream ripping’ allegations added to Suno lawsuit, labels seek to beef up Udio complaint with claims of ‘illegal scraping’ from YouTube The new filing adds a third cause of action, claiming Udio “circumvented technological measures” to obtain copyrighted material.
News BandLab now allows artists and rightsholders to signal interest in AI licensing The expanded BandLab Licensing platform lets artists, labels, and publishers mark tracks as 'Open to AI licensing'
News That AI artist with over 1M listeners on Spotify? His music was created with Suno, says expert report The creators behind Aventhis and other AI 'artists' might not actually own the rights to the music they upload to streaming platforms
News AI music platform Suno acquires WavTool, moving into DAW market WavTool's browser-based DAW technology will be integrated into Suno's existing AI music generation platform.
News Udio, still battling copyright lawsuit from music majors, launches AI ‘visual editing workstation’ 'Sessions' allows users to manipulate song structures by moving, extending or replacing sections within tracks.
News Suno and Udio hit with class action lawsuits from independent artist Justice is accusing the AI companies of using recordings and works from “thousands of class members” without authorization to train their AI models.
News Labels in licensing talks with AI music generators Suno and Udio (report) Reported talks arrive a year after the majors sued Suno and Udio for copyright infringement
News Udio’s mobile app launches on iOS, priced at up to $30 per month The app brings Udio's text-to-music generation features to mobile devices.