November 25, 2025
Warner Music settled with Suno for a licensed platform
The companies' own announcements describe a settlement, opt-in artist terms and 2026 licensed models, with feature details still pending.
The archive
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July 20, 2015
Discover Weekly paired personal taste with similar fans' plays
Spotify's 2015 launch announcement and its follow-up usage data describe how the weekly playlist blends personal and collective listening signals.
April 10, 2024
Udio launched with named backers and an unconfirmed data question
Udio's 2024 launch reporting left training data unconfirmed; its own 2025 statement addresses only output filtering.
May 10, 2019
PROTO trained its AI voice on consenting singers in the room
The artist's Bandcamp notes and studio page describe training the Spawn model live with volunteer singers rather than existing recordings.
September 1, 2018
Eight songs on one album named four different AI tools
The artist's own site credits Amper, Watson Beat, AIVA and NSynth track by track for the 2018 album I AM AI.
January 17, 2024
A nonprofit began certifying AI models trained on licensed data
Fairly Trained's Licensed Model certification checks four criteria and has certified a dozen music-related companies since January 2024.
September 22, 2016
Daddy's Car credits an AI draft and a human arranger separately
Sony CSL's own archive records that Flow Machines generated the composition and a named musician arranged and produced the final track.
Streaming loudness targets sit on top of an ITU measurement standard
Spotify's -14 LUFS policy uses the ITU's BS.1770 algorithm, but the standard sets no target level itself.
Suno assigns song ownership only on its paid tiers
Suno's terms assign output ownership on paid tiers but warn that no copyright is guaranteed to exist in it at all.
April 16, 2012
An orchestra recorded a score its computer wrote from scratch
Melomics' own pages date the 2011 chamber premiere and the 2012 London Symphony Orchestra recording of computer-composed scores.
August 31, 2007
Hatsune Miku launched as a commercial voice bank with a licence
Crypton Future Media's own materials date Hatsune Miku's release and show the character and voice rights were licensed in separate stages.
June 8, 2023
Meta open-sourced MusicGen with a licensed dataset and an NC licence
AudioCraft released MusicGen's weights and code but split their licences, and named its training data source.
January 29, 2025
The Copyright Office ruled prompts alone do not make an author
Part 2 of the Office's AI report finds prompting insufficient for authorship, with consequences for songs built on generated parts.
July 2, 2025
The Velvet Sundown went viral before its AI origin was confirmed
Billboard's reporting documents how an AI-generated band gained streams and press attention weeks before a disputed on-record confirmation.
January 1, 2024
A provenance standard records edits, not the truth of a file
C2PA's specification proves a manifest is untampered, not that a track is human-made or licensed.
Mubert gates commercial and sub-licensing rights by API tier
Mubert's render pricing ties commercial use, sub-licensing and streaming release to specific paid tiers.
A performance licence from ASCAP or BMI does not cover picture
ASCAP's own licensing page states sync rights are licensed separately by writers or publishers, not by the society.
November 25, 2025
A settlement turned Suno into Warner's licensed AI platform
WMG and Suno's own statements describe a litigation settlement and an opt-in framework, without yet naming a participating artist.
Epidemic Sound owns its catalogue instead of collecting royalties
The company's own pages describe a direct-licensing subscription model that clears rights before a track is ever streamed.
September 5, 2024
YouTube extended Content ID-style detection to AI likeness
YouTube opened likeness detection to Partner Program creators in September 2025, modelled on Content ID but limited to detection.