Tag: Copyright
Universal sues DistroKid over a flood of unlabelled AI tracks
A 52-page complaint in Delaware accuses the distributor of passing off Suno output as artist releases while accounting…
Universal Music opens its catalog to an ElevenLabs remix platform
The major label's first deal with ElevenLabs pairs licensing with a fan-facing platform for remixes, mashups and new…
Suno v6 trades its old training set for licensed catalogs
Suno's v6 family drops the training data behind its copyright fights and builds only on licensed catalogs.
News publishers sue OpenAI and Microsoft, demand model destruction
Seattle Times and Newsday accuse the AI companies of training on their journalism without payment and of trademark…
Trump administration backs OpenAI in New York Times training suit
A 20-page government brief defends unlicensed training data as vital to US AI leadership.
Music publishers sue Anthropic founders over torrented lyric books
Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music accuse Anthropic and two co-founders of training Claude on tens of…
Amazon slices open rare books to harvest AI training data
Amazon is buying rare books in bulk, cutting off their spines, and scanning them into AI training data,…
News Corp vows lawsuits against AI firms that steal its work
News Corp's chief executive threatens lawsuits against AI firms that scrape its journalism without paying.
Suno watermarks AI songs and tightens downloads to curb misuse
The AI music firm will fingerprint its tracks and block mass downloads while fighting label lawsuits.
Independent labels sign on to Spotify AI covers via Merlin
Merlin, the independent music collective, joins Universal in backing Spotify's opt-in AI remix and covers product.
German court rules Suno trained on music without permission
A German court found Suno violated copyright by training on GEMA-represented artists.
Historic AI copyright deal leaves fair use question for another day
A federal judge approved Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement with authors, but the core legal question about AI training…