With a number of AI copyright battles unfolding – and with billions riding on the all-important fair use question – the Justice Department has doubled down on its position that training LLMs on protected text constitutes fair use.
"What a wonderful, bright, joyous human. Rest easy Carla," shares ZOMBIES actress Freya Skye.
The organization filed a lawsuit against the AI music platform for allegedly infringing at least 150 songs within its repertoire.
The former NFL quarterback talked to NBC about his initial reaction to being mentioned by the legendary rapper.
The deal also encompasses expanded hospitality and entertainment experiences across Denmark Street in Soho.
While you wait, Meta says it’s taught the model to stop wasting tokens and ask for help a bit more often
The Villarreal Vélez sisters will become the first all-female band to perform at the iconic stadium in the Mexico City.
On Instagram, A.B. Quintanilla posted a screenshot of a cease-and-desist allegedly sent to Suzette over her "utter disregard for her fiduciary duties."
Wisin's new album brings together legendary reggaetón figures like Ivy Queen, Don Chezina and Jowell & Randy.
Found the time to focus and ‘corrected’ incentives that saw sales drive users to full private clouds
”I try not to be precious. Perfectionism doesn't serve you when you're writing songs,” the singer/songwriter says Tuesday night.
Cyber Weapon Index finds AI attacks 'imminent'
West returns to Chicago for a pair of homecoming shows on Sept. 3 and 4.
It appears to be the first time Washington has intervened in any of the copyright cases now stacked up against AI companies Source
When it rains, it pours: SOCAN has filed a Suno copyright lawsuit of its own, accusing the platform of unlawfully training on protected works and then generating infringing outputs.
Cassandra Wilson, the Grammy-winning jazz singer, songwriter and producer, has died. She was 70. Wilson’s longtime manager Robert Torre shared with WBGO that Wilson died early Wednesday morning in Jackson, Mississippi. A cause of death was not given.
Musicians union AFM Local 47 celebrates the passage of California’s SB 186, which it says will save hundreds of its 5,000 members’ jobs across the entertainment industry.
The unsafe keyword will do more heavy lifting, while union types unify disparate forms of data
Even the best model gets fungus identification right just 65% of the time - talk about a false friend
Brazil’s President Lula da Silva has signed the ‘Taylor Swift Law’ to protect fans from the abusive resale of tickets and to provide free drinking water at large events.
Vocalist blended jazz with pop music repertoire and was famous for putting refreshing, unusual spins on well-known songs
Dollywood Parks & Resorts will reflect on the life and legacy of its founder in the wake of her death
Sports betting platform FanDuel rolls out its upgraded app, with an ad campaign featuring an All-American Rejects cover of a Johnny Cash classic. In a new ad campaign to announce the rollout of sports betting platform FanDuel’s upgraded app, the company has gone all out tapping rock band The...
AI model scores well, runs fast, and doesn't cost too much (yet)
STE will develop and manage artists for the Greater China market, and says it's preparing a new Chinese idol group for a debut within two to three years Source
Filmmaker Cameron Crowe has biopics on the brain, being in late-stage development on his long-planned Joni Mitchell movie, the casting of which is still unknown.
California’s state senate and assembly passed AB 1349 despite the arts communities cautioning that it is no longer the bill they initially supported. Despite numerous warnings from small businesses and arts communities that California’s “ghost” ticketing bill AB 1349 was no longer the version they...
Smółka, who joins from Spotify after eight years at the company, will take up the newly created role on Monday (September 7). Source
The move would close a police investigation into the K-pop company's 2020 stock market listing that has been running since December 2024. Source
After the two singers’ “Landslide” duet, Sandra Bullock teased that their “angel voices” appear on the upcoming sequel
Judge André Birotte Jr. ruled that plaintiffs failed to identify a single copyrighted work of their own combining the elements they say defendants took. Source
SOCAN is the third collecting society to take Suno to court – and the first to file since one of them won Source
Adding insult to injury
“The residents of Los Angeles County should be outraged because it will be the taxpayers that are picking [up] the tab to defend this millionaire,” Patrick Steinfeld says
India’s music streaming economy is growing like never before. That’s the big takeaway from the India edition of this year’s Loud & Clear report, Spotify’s annual look at how artists earn money from streaming and where the country’s music economy is headed next.
Nearly two-thirds of US national security pros surveyed believe AI risks, and government posture toward them, are unacceptable
The country singer invited her former collaborator to the second sold-out night of her New York shows
Judge's new ruling ends a large portion of the lawsuit involving roughly 1,800 songs from prominent artists including Karol G, Drake, Pitbull, Daddy Yankee, and Justin Bieber
Following the Supreme Court’s Cox v. Sony decision, internet service provider RCN is doubling down on its push to end the copyright suit filed against it by the major labels.
Common, Patti LaBelle and Public Enemy are the artists who will be honored at the 2026 Black Music Action Coalition Gala, presented by Live Nation, taking place on September 24, 2026, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California.
As the summer begins to wind down in September, Hollywood is just getting started with a new crop of awards season movies premiering at the Venice Film Festival.
Miscreants use chained zero days to pwn boxen as third-party SOCs say further attacks 'almost certain'
In theaters October 12, the film, directed by Sue Kim, will follow Lisa as she balances global stardom and internal pressure
Kelly Clarkson ended her talk show on a high note. The singer wrapped up “The Kelly Clarkson Show” after seven seasons with the Aug. 31 episode, during which the “American Idol” alum covered the hit song “Golden” from “KPop Demon Hunters.” The pop hit was the most requested song for the show’s...
The film, which premieres this month at TIFF, also features the Police's Stewart Copeland, Red Hot Chili Peppers' Chad Smith
Well, Brady Corbet has got his work cut out for him. That was one of the first thoughts that came to mind soon after David Byrne and company took the stage for the first of two shows at the Hollywood Bowl this weekend. It stemmed from an announcement having come out just one day earlier […]
Predictive text remains available, but users will have to invite it into their workflow
“We needed it to be a private feel,” Kelce said on the first episode of his New Heights podcast since the July 3 ceremony
Instruments reactivated for a final hurrah before reentry
Music has spent the last decade optimising for infinite choice . Streaming libraries expanded without limit, shuffling became ever more personalised, and feeds manoeuvred themselves into narrower loops. Source
Don't disable automatic updates if the pace is too much – that's what ESR is for
Cloud storage biz severs old integration and urges victims to reset credentials
“No one ever wants to lose, especially something like this,” lawyer Michael Sanft says
Exeunt zVault stage right; enter FreeCORE and BSDnas
“Always Lalisa,” a feature documentary following Blackpink member Lisa, will open in Imax and cinemas worldwide for a limited engagement beginning Oct. 12, Sony Music Vision has revealed.
Travis Kelce has opened up more than ever about his wedding to Taylor Swift, a private party that had the whole world swooning and which took place at New York City’s Madison Square Garden in July. The pro athlete took to the Sept. 2 episode of his podcast “New Heights,” which happened to be the […]
Matt Clifford plans to keep role as ARIA chair while leading the LLM maker's dealings with governments outside North America
Photonics startups like iPronics are raking in hundreds of millions in funding to make optical circuit switches faster, denser, and cheaper
Research firm Stvdio and Secretly Distribution have published a report on the independent-music sector, billing it as “a fight for music’s infrastructure”. The post is from Music Ally.
In March last year, we wrote about a proposed bill in California that would ban ‘speculative’ ticketing – where people list tickets that they don’t actually own (yet) on secondary platforms. The post is from Music Ally.
2024 was Sonos’s annus horribilis and no mistake: privacy mis-steps; a widely-hated app update; delayed product launches and layoffs. The post is from Music Ally.
Given their bitter, ongoing legal battle, Musixmatch and LyricFind won’t enjoy being grouped into the same news story. However, both made announcements in the last 24 hours, and together they show the companies’ product direction. The post is from Music Ally.
Installing an AI gaming package offers relief while custom cursors suffer a separate reset
Kaskade has signed with Pacific Music Group (PMG) in a strategic partnership focused on expanding the electronic artist’s presence across Asia, the Pan-Asian entertainment company has revealed. Kaskade, born Ryan Raddon, is an eight-time Grammy Award nominee whose career spans more than two...
The budget was minimal, FedEx was the bottleneck, and DNS was of course the source of trouble
The latest lawsuit filed against AI-music firm Suno comes from a group of US-based musicians: Jason Isbell, David Lowery, Guy Forsyth and Eduardo Calle. The post is from Music Ally.
Mobile signal below ground beats the citywide average, Ookla says
Startups invited to tackle NHS, defense, compute, and agent security challenges while Whitehall's own adoption remains patchy
The platform is aimed at labels ranging from independents managing a small roster to organizations managing thousands of artists and releases. Source
Hybe isn’t done yet in its quest to find talent that will form its first Indian girl group. The K-Pop behemoth has announced that it’s expanding the search — which […] The post is from Music Ally.
Key Takeaways Spotify has put out a bunch of India-specific statistics from its annual Loud & Clear report. Among the highlights: the royalties generated by Indian artists on the DSP […] The post is from Music Ally.
Rep. Thomas Massie named alleged Epstein co-conspirators on the House floor amid his launch of a major push for the ‘Epstein Files Transparency Act II’. Rep.
A judge has reversed his earlier decision, ruling in favor of Bad Bunny and striking down a significant portion of a massive copyright lawsuit affecting over 150 artists. In a rare move, U.S. District Judge André Birotte Jr.
Alanis Morissette is suing her former tour manager with extortion and fraud allegations involving threats to falsely report the singer for drug trafficking.
Another day, another high-stakes copyright lawsuit against Suno – this time from Latin label and publisher Gerencia 360, which is accusing the AI music platform of infringing on hundreds of compositions and recordings.
1 People forget that “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” went to number two for Gladys Knight & the Pips before Marvin Gaye took it to number one little over a year later, on the way to its becoming the biggest Motown single to date. And the Temptations released “Too Busy Thinking About My Baby” […]
David Byrne wrote a song about the world’s richest man. The Talking Heads frontman wrote and performed an original song for “Musk,” Alex Gibney’s sprawling documentary reckoning with Elon Musk, Variety can exclusively reveal.
We’ve been hearing plenty about Suno’s allegedly infringing training process and outputs. But what about its alleged publicity and likeness rights violations?
Who? Every day my father used to wake up my mother saying “Muggs, guess who died!” Well, not every day, but often enough that it became a regular joke in our family. My father read the obituaries assiduously, after all, he grew up in Bridgeport and he knew most of the names. Not anymore. Today […]
Thanks to solid paid streaming growth – and double-digit revenue hikes across vinyl, CDs, and sync alike – U.S. recorded music revenue is said to have approached $6 billion during 2026’s opening half.
We are seeking a motivated, forward thinking, and dynamic YouTube Channel Strategist to join our UK team. Ideally you will have experience advising artist and label clients on Youtube strategy. This […] The post is from Music Ally.
New RIAA figures released this morning are reigniting a familiar question: are CDs actually staging a comeback, or is the format riding a temporary sales bump? According to the RIAA’s newly released H1 2026 mid-year report, U.S.
Sony Music Japan will acquire a 23.29% stake in video game developer GungHo Online Entertainment, making Sony Music the company’s largest shareholder. GungHo Online Entertainment, the Japanese video game developer best known for its massive mobile hit Puzzle & Dragons, has a new primary...
Industry wholesale revenues hit $5.97 billion, up 6.9% YoY Source
Katy Perry’s 2011 hit “The One That Got Away” has been claimed by a new generation on TikTok, becoming the Global and US Song of the Summer 2026. As the warm summer air turns crisp and cool on the cusp of fall, TikTok reveals its annual Songs of the Summer list, celebrating the musical trends […]
The song, which is 15 years old, was initially released as a single from Perry's Teenage Dream album in 2011 Source
The lawsuit accuses Suno of building a product that responds to a musician's name by generating a song, a written description, and a cover image evoking that person Source
CRAE raises worthwhile economic questions about the proposed Phonorecords V Subpart B settlement, but the Copyright Royalty Judges should not be expected to build the missing economic record themselves.
What was that we wrote this morning about BMG and Concord expecting to complete their merger this month? Within hours, it was signed off. The post is from Music Ally.
A federal judge dismissed the remaining claims against Lizzo and her production company in a long-running lawsuit filed by her former wardrobe stylist. On Tuesday, a federal judge dismissed the remaining claims against Lizzo’s production company in a lawsuit filed by her former wardrobe stylist.
The RIAA has published its 2026 mid-year report, revealing total wholesale revenues of $5.97bn for recorded music in the US in the first half of this year. The post is from Music Ally.
Soundplate started as a record label before evolving into a company that makes marketing tools for independent artists. The post is from Music Ally.
6.9% Growth Outpaces US Inflation as Streaming, Physical and Sync Revenues Rise Paid Subscriptions Generate $3.4 Billion in First Half of 2026 The Recording Industry Association of America® (RIAA) today announced that US recorded music revenues for the first half of 2026 were up 6.9% from the first...
The Picard team is excited to announce the first release candidate for Picard 3. With this release we are confident that Picard 3 is now suitable for testing by a wider audience. The final 3.0 release is planned to happen in a few weeks.
The music-numbers story from media giant Bertelsmann’s latest financial results was 5% growth for BMG’s revenues in the first half of this year. However, the music-deals story was the imminent completion of BMG’s merger with Concord. The post is from Music Ally.
If you’re a longtime reader of Music Ally, you might remember our coverage of Japanese company GungHo Online Entertainment and its massive mobile-gaming hit Puzzle & Dragons back in the day. The post is from Music Ally.
By all accounts, Olivia Rodrigo’s Daisy Chain Fields festival went swimmingly this weekend. Even Katseye, who’d been forced to pull out after an injury to a group member, managed to make an appearance. The post is from Music Ally.
“TikTok’s top song of summer 2025 is actually… 10 years old?” was how we headlined our report on Jess Glynne’s ‘Hold My Hand’ winning the summer-virality battle on TikTok last year. The post is from Music Ally.
BMG and Concord announce the successful completion of their merger, confirming a new leadership team and a bright path forward. Today, BMG and Concord announced the completion of their highly anticipated merger, creating a new global music company on par with the majors with the scale and expertise...
A jury has found Duane Davis guilty in the murder of Tupac Shakur, 30 years after the rapper was killed in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas. The jury has found Duane “Keefe D” Davis (sometimes spelled “Keffe D”) guilty in the murder of Tupac Shakur, just weeks before the 30th anniversary of the...
Warner Music Central Europe announces the launch of Warner Records Germany in Berlin, headed by director Lea Londa. On Tuesday, Warner Music Central Europe announced the official launch of Warner Records Germany, establishing a frontline label powered by one of the music industry’s global majors.
MusicBrainz is announcing a set of upgrades for its search service on November 30, 2026. The main change will be upgrading Solr from version 9 to 10. Fixes and improvements will be released alongside this. Some of these changes may break some specific search requests.
AI company faces multibillion dollar lawsuit over misuse of copyrighted songs to train Claude models All AI wants for Christmas is a vast back catalogue of songs without paying for it, according to a multibillion-dollar lawsuit against the startup behind the Claude chatbot.
1 I became fascinated with airplanes when I was 13 and my family made a cross-country trip. Our first flight was on a 720B to Chicago. I’d never heard of that plane. It was the 707 that was famous, the epitome of the jet age. But on the tarmac I saw planes with three engines […]
I recently dug out my CDs and started reripping them all. I've found a few forgotten gems in there, but few hit harder for me than the beautifully concise Professor Murder Rides the Subway EP.
Hello, Everyone! I am Md Waqib Sk (waqib2992 on IRC), an undergraduate student at Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. This summer, I had the opportunity to participate in Google Summer of Code 2026 with MetaBrainz, where I worked on developing a calibre plugin for BookBrainz.
Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell have filed suit against Anthropic in the US District Court for the Northern District of California seeking damages for "tens of thousands" copyrighted works.
As audio-focused generative tools and platforms have gotten more sophisticated, the internet has become increasingly filled with AI-generated music whose melodies and vocals are algorithmically derived from the work of human artists.
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Meta’s roughly $17 billion social-media addiction settlement promises sweeping protections for children and teens. But viewed through the inverted moral logic of C.S.
This client-only series takes a deeper look at the key themes shaping MIDiA’s 2026–2033 global music forecasts report , and what they mean for the future of the music business. Global music streaming subscription revenue grew 14. Source
On this week’s episode, I break down how shifting ownership, AI adoption, and changing platform policies are reshaping the music business and professional audio landscape.