Sony Music 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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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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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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Jermaine Dupri and his So So Def companies have ended their $18 million royalty lawsuit against Sony Music Entertainment less than two months after filing it, telling a federal court that the parties had resolved their dispute before Sony formally joined the case. Dupri, So So Def Recordings and So…
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Sony Music Entertainment has filed a second federal copyright lawsuit against AI music company Udio, alleging the service copied 30,117 Sony-controlled sound recordings to train its generative music models without permission. The complaint was filed July 20th in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York by…
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Lit has reached a settlement in principle with Sony Music Entertainment in a lawsuit built around an unusually modern question buried inside a recording contract signed in 1998: should streams be paid like record sales or licenses of the band’s master recordings? The rock band behind “My Own Worst Enemy”…
