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Suno sued again - this time by production duo who claim generative AI has caused an 80% slump in sync licensing income
3+ hour, 57+ min ago (752+ words) Another day another Suno lawsuit. The AI company has been sued by production duo The American Dollar. This lawsuit is particularly interesting because the duo have traditionally made a lot of money from sync deals, and they say AI music…...
Songwriters say demo sent to New Jeans was incorporated into K-pop hit without credit or permission
1+ week, 1+ day ago (563+ words) Four LA-based songwriters have gone legal over the 2024 New Jeans hit "How Sweet. They claim that track incorporates key elements of a song they wrote and produced to a brief provided by a company called BANA, a South Korean agency…...
You Tube to let video creators swap out Content ID tracks for royalty-free AI substitutes
2+ week, 1+ day ago (542+ words) A new feature on You Tube will make it easy for video creators dealing with Content ID copyright claims to replace copyright protected music in their videos with royalty free AI-generated instrumentals. Innovations like this could negatively impact on You…...
Universal Music has shot itself in the foot over AI fair use, says Anthropic
4+ week, 9+ hour ago (999+ words) Anthropic wants a judge to throw out the copyright lawsuit filed against it by three music publishers, including Universal, because AI training is fair use. The publishers argue that AI-generated lyrics are diluting the market for songs, but Universal recently…...
Anthropic's supporters tell court "novel" fair use arguments put forward by music publishers are "unconstitutional"
2+ week, 6+ day ago (871+ words) The music industry has evolved its copyright arguments as to why AI training is not fair use under US law. But are those new arguments valid? Supporters of AI company Anthropic, which has been sued by a group of music…...
Eddie Dalton's (actually quite modest) chart success sparks further debate about where AI music fits in
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (1357+ words) An AI-generated artist called Eddie Dalton got a lot of press coverage this weekend after reaching number two in the UK charts. Though it was the sales chart that excludes streaming data, which isn't so impressive. But it still prompted…...
Music industry trade bodies join forces with music publishers to defeat Anthropic's "AI is fair use" defence
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (791+ words) The music publishers suing Anthropic recently asked the judge to reject the AI company's fair use defence. Now eight music industry organisations have filed an amicus brief also arguing that AI training can never be fair use, because the development…...
Claude's AI lyrics cause market dilution, say music publishers calling for courts to reject fair use defence
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (815+ words) Music publishers suing Anthropic for copyright infringement want a summary judgement in their favour, urging the judge to reject the AI company's "fair use' defence. They argue Anthropic's Claude AI spitting out new lyrics is causing market dilution, which is…...
Copyright Alliance welcomes separate AI documents published by White House and Congress, even though they differ on copyright matters
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (980+ words) Two documents on regulating AI were published in Washington last week, one by President Donald Trump and one by Senator Marsha Blackburn. They say opposing things when it comes to copyright matters. But the Copyright Alliance was still able to…...
Google had every opportunity to train its AI legally, but chose to do it on the cheap instead, say indie musicians in new lawsuit
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (692+ words) Another AI copyright lawsuit, this time a group of indie artists are suing Google over its Lyria model. Like all AI companies, the lawsuit says, Google infringed copyright when training its model. But Google's "conduct is different, because it has…...