August 18, 2023
Courts ruled a fully AI-made work has no human author
The D.C. Circuit affirmed the Copyright Act requires a human author, leaving open how much AI a human-authored track may contain.
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July 1, 2024
A voice clone’s consent has to satisfy a statute and a platform
Tennessee’s ELVIS Act and two platforms’ own terms show what a written consent for a cloned voice needs to state.
Two decades of shared MIR evaluation still exclude generation
MIREX's own 2026 call for proposals says generative-model evaluation is a gap, not a solved comparison.
Ozone's assistant still leaves the final call to the engineer
iZotope's current documentation dates Master Assistant to 2017 and describes what it proposes and what stays adjustable.
December 19, 2023
Suno's free and paid tiers have always owned output differently
Suno's web app reached the public in December 2023 and its terms still split output rights by subscription tier.
October 28, 2019
Open source made stem separation common but not a rights grant
Spleeter and Demucs put studio-grade separation on any laptop, with Spleeter's own docs warning it is not a licence.
DistroKid allows AI music but requires a disclosure credit
The distributor's own help centre states what counts as AI, what must be disclosed, and what still gets a release rejected.
March 26, 2024
Streaming brought in 84% of US recorded music revenue in 2023
RIAA's own year-end statistics show streaming's share, the paid-subscription split, and what physical formats still earn.
Lalal.ai puts copyright compliance on the person uploading
LALAL.AI's terms make users solely responsible for the rights in whatever audio they separate or edit.
December 2, 2010
YouTube's own blog places Content ID's launch in 2007
A YouTube retrospective and current help pages date the fingerprint system's start and describe what a match can and cannot decide.
June 24, 2024
Record labels sued Suno and Udio over training data
The complaints allege mass copying of recordings to train two generators; both cases outlasted two later label settlements.
September 25, 2025
Music’s AI credit standard is still being built by DDEX
DDEX confirms a metadata standard for AI disclosure is still in development, while Spotify and YouTube already run their own separate labels.
Two voice-conversion services now publish artist consent as a feature
Kits AI and Voice-Swap market artist-approved voice libraries, but their own terms put the consent burden for uploaded voices on the user.
July 31, 2024
A federal bill would give Americans a property right in their voice
The NO FAKES Act, introduced in 2024 and reintroduced in 2025, remains pending in committee and has not become law as of this record.
A detector's 99% accuracy claim is the vendor's own measurement
Ircam Amplify's AIMD product page states an accuracy figure with no published method or independent audit.
October 24, 2022
A neural codec's tokens explain a generator's sonic signature
EnCodec compresses audio into discrete codes that generators like MusicGen predict, so the codec's decoder shapes the final sound.
May 6, 2024
Randy Travis used AI to sing again with his own consent
Warner Music Nashville used a reference vocal and AI modelling to let Randy Travis release new vocals after aphasia silenced him.
Moises ties stem separation to a cover song's own rights
Moises documents licensed training data and puts the burden of clearing a cover's underlying song on the user.
January 29, 2025
The Copyright Office found prompts do not control output
The Office’s Part 2 report and two generators’ own documentation show why a prompt describes an idea but does not direct its expression.
March 2, 2021
A mental-health charity credited AI, not estates, for four songs
The campaign's own FAQ says an AI algorithm learned from 27 Club musicians' catalogues, while disclaiming estate endorsement.