Music Licensing Music Headlines & Industry News
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Sony Music Group has become the first music company to join the Alliance for Responsible Innovation in the Arts & Media, bringing its increasingly firm position on AI licensing into a coalition already representing major companies across film, television, journalism, publishing, education and technology. The September 23rd announcement places Sony…
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Robert Palmer’s estate has entered a wide-ranging partnership with Primary Wave Music covering the late singer’s publishing and recording catalogs as well as rights connected to his name, image and likeness. Announced September 23rd, the agreement gives the estate access to Primary Wave’s publishing infrastructure and marketing operation while the…
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Warner Music Group’s settlement with Suno has moved from legal truce to working product. Suno launched its v6 generation of AI music models September 9th using licensed music supplied through partnerships with Warner, BMG and Believe, introducing a model family built separately from the systems at the center of earlier…
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Spotify is bringing independent labels into its upcoming fan-made covers and remixes product through a new licensing agreement with Merlin, expanding a generative AI project that had initially been announced with Universal Music Group. The agreement, announced August 4th, gives artists on labels covered by Merlin’s Spotify deal the option…
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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…
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Apple Music has raised subscription prices in the United States and numerous international markets, with Apple pointing directly to rising music licensing costs as the reason listeners will now pay more for the streaming service. The changes took effect July 17th and mark Apple Music’s first major subscription increase since…
