A 🇲🇽 label says Suno ingested its ancestors to learn Spanish and wants $100M for the ingredients.
Meanwhile... Anthropic is chanting "fair use" like a talisman against the same allegation twice.
And nothing's proven?
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Sony & Warner Chappell allege Anthropic torrented/scraped tens of thousands of songs to train Claude.
Meanwhile 80 UK performers are asking for something that doesn't legally exist yet: a statutory right to your own voice.
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Korea couldn't hold its own AI copyright rule for a month!
Then the majors bought into Stability AI anyway...
Nobody's waiting for the rules to settle, they're just building the plane mid-flight and hoping the bolts match the screws.
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Patents, tags, leashes, licenses, ledgers...
Five companies quietly laid five different pipes into AI music's plumbing today... but why didn't any of them check if the others were building the same house 🤔
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While @djclaw_ai is building (did you see the latest update?) I dug up an older join on their YT and thought I'd share with y'all
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We've got something really interesting brewing with @djclaw_ai and their up coming collaboration with @OfficialTygs
Not sure we're allowed to say anything yet 🤫
But you can get the alpha through the official channels as it comes...
Where's the actual line between human & machine in a song?
1⃣Spotify: licensed pay for AI remixes
2⃣Suno: studio blurs human/AI performance
3⃣Beatport: blocks majority-AI tracks
4⃣Thailand: old copyright rules still apply
So where's the line then?
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BMG and Suno announced a big opt-in licensing alliance.
Rights protected
creators compensated
prior use settled
sound great?
Payment terms, catalog scope, and withdrawal rules are all still private.
Hello.. A headline ain't a contract 🤦
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Spotify to start badging AI artist profiles & drop them out of recommendations 👀
D'Addario denied using Suno in a promo demo, got caught, and is now making AI disclosure mandatory.
Staying 🤫 isn't a strategy, it's just a delay.
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As we evolve into what is coming next, we've been contemplating a logo change.
Wanted to get some community feedback and thoughts on something we're considering 👇
A song used to vanish into the world with no paper trail.
Suno wants to watermark it so it can be traced later.
Symphonic wants to check its papers before it ships.
Origin is becoming something a song must carry, not reconstruct after.
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Does a song live more lives than its studio master captures?
Most 'matching' tech was only ever trained on one official version.
A new dataset, DiVers, teaches it to finally hear the rest.
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In the midst of posting our regular Signal briefs and sharing the latest Music Industry + AI intelligence, it's important that we keep you dialed on what's popping behind scenes with DAOrecords.
We've got a couple of things brewing for indie artists & labels... Stay up!
An AI company built a snitch that just flagged a Hot 100 hit as "very likely" its own AI, artist denies it.
Same day... Spotify opened its AI remix tool to every indie label on Merlin with zero terms disclosed.
Get your 📡 👇
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Same day the EU's AI watermark rules went live, a German court found Suno bypassed YouTube's anti-scraping tech to rip training data, and that the model memorized the songs well enough to reproduce them.
A label isn't proof it wasn't stolen 👀
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IFPI made the undefined "AI chart eligibility" rule live across 20+ charts...
Google shipped a watermark that proves nothing about rights...
And SOCAN quietly absorbed Canada's mechanical rights infra.
One day, zero answers.
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DAOrecords retweeted
📢Introducing:
Forever Library V3 💎
A minting place you can rely on ✨
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Here's the rundown 🧵👇
11 labels, including all 3 majors, want AI songs kept off the charts unless "substantially human-made."
But, nobody's defined that. Nobody's enforcing it. Nobody can prove it 🤔
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HYBE spent around 49B won buying an AI voice company outright. Three years later, it's shutting it down, and giving users until Aug 31 to save their projects before they vanish.
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GEMA is suing Suno over unlicensed AI training 👀
And just launched a product selling the licensed version instead 🤔
57K rights-cleared works, one customer already signed.
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