Music Copyright Music Headlines & Industry News
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Sam Smith and Normani’s long-running copyright fight over “Dancing With a Stranger” is moving toward a jury trial after a federal judge refused to end the case in the defendants’ favor, leaving jurors to potentially decide whether the 2019 hit infringed an earlier song built around a strikingly similar central…
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Suno has disclosed that its new V6 AI music models were trained partly on “creations” from its own community, adding a new layer to its escalating copyright fight with Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment. The AI music company said September 22nd that V6 was trained using licensed content…
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South Korea is moving toward new copyright and royalty standards for AI-assisted music just as songs made with generative tools are beginning to reach the country’s mainstream streaming charts. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism announced September 21st that it will convene a public forum at the National Assembly…
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A west London man who generated £2.743 million selling counterfeit vinyl records has been sentenced to three years and six months in prison after police uncovered what they describe as the UK’s largest seizure of fake records. Rehan Ahmed, 40, was sentenced at Inner London Crown Court on September 18th…
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Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment are suing Suno again, targeting the AI music company’s newly released v6 models and alleging that information derived from its earlier technology helped shape the new generation. Filed September 18th in federal court in Massachusetts, the second lawsuit alleges infringement involving 60,202 sound…
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X Corp. and a group of major music publishers have ended the competing federal lawsuits at the center of a three-year fight over copyright, licensing and music used on the social platform formerly known as Twitter. Joint stipulations filed July 16th dismissed the publishers’ copyright infringement case in Tennessee and…
