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SOURCE: MUSIC BUSINESS WORLDWIDE — AI & COPYRIGHT
░ AI & COPYRIGHT
▶Judge denies Sony Music bid to add over 30,000 recordings to Udio lawsuit
The ruling from Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein keeps the case at the 333 works that Sony had originally put in suit.
02 JUL 2026
▶Suno sued by Winamp subsidiary Jamendo over AI training, as firm files new copyright suit just a week after suing Nvidia
Jamendo accuses Suno of the unauthorized use of musical content and associated data in the development and operation of its AI technologies.
30 JUN 2026
▶Google moves to dismiss indie artists' Lyria 3 AI training lawsuit, arguing they licensed their music when agreeing to YouTube's terms of service
Google argued that the artists licensed their music to YouTube when they uploaded it – and that the license covers the conduct they are now suing over.
10 JUN 2026
▶Sony Music urges court to reject Udio's bid to seal the size of its AI training data
Sony Music argued that the number "is necessary to understand the full extent of Udio's copying."
10 JUN 2026
▶UMG and Sony seek to add over 61k recordings to Suno lawsuit after discovery reveals AI trained on 'millions' of their copyrighted tracks
The labels say they are asserting "only a small fraction" of those recordings – 61,026 works – in the proposed second amended complaint.
26 MAY 2026
▶Sony Music moves to add more than 30,000 copyrighted recordings to its lawsuit against Udio
Sony Music now alleges that Udio "copied and ingested" 30,442 copyrighted works into its generative AI models.
26 MAY 2026
░ PLATFORMS & COMPANIES
▶Anthropic, fighting lawsuits over alleged copying of song lyrics, accuses Alibaba of copying Claude to train a rival AI
Anthropic says Alibaba-affiliated operators used nearly 25,000 fraudulent accounts to generate over 28.8 million exchanges with its Claude AI model.
25 JUN 2026
▶Four music datasets holding millions of tracks are being shared among AI developers, The Atlantic reports
The collections were identified by The Atlantic's Alex Reisner, who reported that they are circulating within the AI-development community.
16 JUN 2026
░ INDUSTRY NEWS
▶'Landmark' declaration signed at CISAC General Assembly calling for 'protection of human creativity' in the AI era
The Paris Commitment urges governments, tech firms and cultural industries to ensure human creators remain protected and fairly remunerated in the AI era.
08 JUN 2026
▶TikTok's distro service SoundOn cracks down on manipulated audio via ACRCloud partnership to intercept unauthorized tracks
ACRCloud’s Derivative Works Detection service uses audio fingerprinting to identify modified works
02 APR 2026