News Cookie giant Crumbl, reportedly eyeing $2bn sale, sued by Warner Music Group over ‘massive scale’ copyright infringement in TikTok posts WMG has sued US cookie chain Crumbl, alleging that it built its business through “blatant, willful, and repeated copyright infringement.”
News South Korea’s largest music copyright collective just banned registration of songs created with AI KOMCA’s decision comes at a time when lawmakers and courts around the world are grappling with the issue of copyrighting AI-made works
News Sir Lucian Grainge calls for ‘appropriate guardrails’ on AI amid debate on UK’s proposed copyright changes “How do we best protect creative and imaginative invention, and harness the power of new technology without that technology harnessing us?"
News Is DeepSeek training its AI on copyrighted music without permission? The international trade group for music publishers says DeepSeek replicates the entire lyrics to copyrighted songs
News UK’s House of Lords votes to strengthen copyright protections in AI, dealing blow to government’s plans The House of Lords voted 145 to 126 in favor of amendments to a bill in a bid to strengthen copyright protections in AI development
News UK’s plan to make copyright law more AI-friendly raises concerns Reforms to laws on data mining and scraping could could trigger 'a US tech-led heist of UK copyrighted works'
News Merlin tells tech companies not to use its members’ music to train AI without authorization Using Merlin members' music to train AI requires “explicit written authorization,” the organization has declared
News Music industry backs new ‘TRAIN Act’ requiring transparency in materials used to train AI The law would require AI companies to disclose whether or not they used copyrighted works at the request of rightsholders
News 2 Live Crew can take back recorded music copyrights from ex-label, jury rules Lawyers for the current owner of 2 Live Crew's copyrights have filed to overturn the jury's decision
Analysis News How the ‘COPIED Act’ could make it unlawful to train AI using copyrighted material without permission… A new front has opened in the battle between IP owners and AI companies who would use copyrighted IP to train AI without permission
Analysis Suno could get sued by the record business. Who’s backing it with $125m? Here, we take a look at Suno’s investors, their philosophies, and the other businesses they’ve put money behind...
News AI music generator Suno raises $125m, valuing company at $500m (report) "It’s very early days, but 10 million people have already made music using Suno," said Suno Co-Founder and CEO Mikey Shulman
Analysis Blog What is the potential impact of Getty’s lawsuit against Stability AI on the music industry? The following op/ed comes from Jonathan Coote, an associate and music lawyer at Bray & Krais Solicitors
News UK politicians call for changes in streaming royalty split between recorded music and publishing; compensation for use of materials in training AI The recommendations have received a mixed reaction from music industry stakeholders
News New US bill could make developers disclose their use of copyrighted music to train generative AI models All uses of copyrighted materials would have to be registered with the Register of Copyrights under the proposed Generative AI Copyright Disclosure Act
