Rights & release
Contributions, client approval, permissions and platform requirements need their own place in the project. No checkbox can turn uncertainty into clearance.
Rights & release / Guide
A brief, a change log and a defined acceptance listen can make revisions clearer without turning creative collaboration into a legal template.
3 min read 19 Sep 2026 draftRights & release / Guide
Map composition, recording, performance, production and metadata separately so a release can be discussed accurately without a blanket copyright claim.
3 min read 19 Sep 2026 draftRights & policy / Archive
The ELVIS Act, signed March 2024 and effective 1 July 2024, added voice to Tennessee's right-of-publicity statute and reaches cloning tools.
3 min read 21 March 2024 event · prepared 16 September 2026Rights & policy / Archive
The NO FAKES Act, introduced in 2024 and reintroduced in 2025, remains pending in committee and has not become law as of this record.
3 min read 31 July 2024 event · prepared 16 September 2026Rights & policy / Archive
Part 2 of the Office's AI report finds prompting insufficient for authorship, with consequences for songs built on generated parts.
3 min read 29 January 2025 event · prepared 16 September 2026Rights & policy / Archive
The complaints allege mass copying of recordings to train two generators; both cases outlasted two later label settlements.
3 min read 24 June 2024 event · prepared 16 September 2026Rights & policy / Archive
UMG's announcement and Udio's own notice describe a 2026 licensed platform, download restrictions, and undisclosed settlement terms.
3 min read 29 October 2025 event · prepared 16 September 2026Rights & policy / Archive
The companies' own announcements describe a settlement, opt-in artist terms and 2026 licensed models, with feature details still pending.
3 min read 25 November 2025 event · prepared 16 September 2026Rights & policy / Archive
The D.C. Circuit affirmed the Copyright Act requires a human author, leaving open how much AI a human-authored track may contain.
3 min read 18 March 2025 event · prepared 16 September 2026Rights & policy / Archive
Article 53 obligations took effect in August 2025, requiring training-content summaries and honouring artists' rights reservations.
3 min read 2 August 2025 event · prepared 16 September 2026Rights & policy / Archive
Munich's Regional Court found OpenAI liable for reproducing GEMA lyrics; OpenAI has appealed, and a Suno ruling followed in 2026.
3 min read 11 November 2025 event · prepared 16 September 2026Rights & policy / Archive
Sony Music's May 2024 declaration reserves its catalogue from AI training under the EU's machine-readable opt-out mechanism.
3 min read 16 May 2024 event · prepared 16 September 2026Rights & policy / Archive
More than 40 organisations signed the Human Artistry Campaign's principles requiring consent and licensing for AI training.
3 min read 16 March 2023 event · prepared 16 September 2026Rights & policy / Archive
Fairly Trained's Licensed Model certification checks four criteria and has certified a dozen music-related companies since January 2024.
3 min read 17 January 2024 event · prepared 16 September 2026Rights & policy / Archive
Suno's terms assign output ownership on paid tiers but warn that no copyright is guaranteed to exist in it at all.
3 min read Practice record · prepared 16 September 2026Rights & policy / Archive
C2PA's specification proves a manifest is untampered, not that a track is human-made or licensed.
3 min read Practice record · prepared 16 September 2026Rights & policy / Archive
SynthID embeds an inaudible mark in Lyria output; the documents scope its robustness and its limits.
3 min read 16 November 2023 event · prepared 16 September 2026Rights & policy / Archive
UMG's own open letter and the joint press release with TikTok show what was disputed and what the new deal changed.
3 min read 30 January 2024 event · prepared 16 September 2026Rights & policy / Archive
The Music Modernization Act and the Mechanical Licensing Collective's own site explain the blanket mechanical licence a generated song still needs.
3 min read 1 January 2021 event · prepared 16 September 2026Rights & policy / Archive
ASCAP's own licensing page states sync rights are licensed separately by writers or publishers, not by the society.
3 min read Practice record · prepared 16 September 2026Rights & policy / Archive
Stable Audio Open and MusicGen name different amounts about their training data, against what the EU’s new code asks providers to describe.
3 min read Practice record — prepared 16 September 2026Rights & policy / Archive
A sampling ruling and the Copyright Office’s separate work on digital replicas show why a cleared sample and a generated sound-alike differ.
3 min read Practice record — prepared 16 September 2026Rights & policy / Archive
Copyright Office registration guidance, a distributor’s new GenAI framework and Spotify’s disclosure policy set three separate gates.
3 min read Practice record — prepared 16 September 2026
