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- 17 Sept
AI Music News 17 SeptAnthropic scanned songbooks and threw the paper away, and publishers want the titles
- Music publishers told a California court that Anthropic bought songbooks and sheet music, scanned every page, and threw the paper away.
- They want the program, which Anthropic called Project Panama internally, opened up in the first round of evidence gathering.
- Anthropic says the question belongs in the second round, after the judge rules in the older Concord case.
- 17 Sept
AI Music News 17 SeptBelieve and TuneCore put 2 consent checks between your music and Suno
- Believe CEO Denis Ladegaillerie says no Believe or TuneCore music enters an AI training set without artist consent first.
- The process has two steps, a general opt-in to AI programs and then a separate yes or no on the Suno deal by name.
- An artist who opts out is excluded from training Suno's models and from anything those models generate.
- 17 Sept
AI Music News 17 SeptSubmitHub now blocks any track its detector scores 85% likely AI
- SubmitHub is blocking any submission its own detector scores at 85% or higher likelihood of being AI.
- The block covers pure AI and hybrid AI alike, and writing the lyrics yourself earns no exemption.
- Roughly 11% of tracks uploaded in the past month cleared that 85% mark.
- 17 Sept
AI Music News 17 SeptA third breach lawsuit hits Suno, filed 10 days after the first two were merged
- Michael Beckham filed a third proposed class action against Suno on September 3, 2026 in Massachusetts.
- It landed 10 days after Judge Allison D. Burroughs merged the two earlier breach cases into one.
- The complaint says the stolen dataset held roughly 55.3 million email addresses plus tens of thousands of Stripe purchase records.
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- 17 Sept
AI Music News 17 SeptUniversal and Warner say one answer the AFM gave in July ended its own AI pay case
- Universal and Warner Records filed their closing written answers in the AFM case on September 11, 2026.
- Both point to July 21, when the union's lawyer told Judge Edgardo Ramos that no AFM agreement covers AI use.
- Universal argues the clause the union relies on borrows its rate from another agreement, and that no such agreement exists.
- 16 Sept
AI Music News 16 SeptSuno hired Cherry Miao as its first CFO, 3 months after the $5.4B round
- Cherry Miao announced on September 14, 2026 that she has joined Suno as its first Chief Financial Officer.
- She was previously CFO at Hightouch, where she ran finance, legal, data and revenue operations.
- Suno raised more than $400M in June 2026 at a $5.4B post-money valuation, led by Bond Capital.
- 16 Sept
Tool News & Updates 16 SeptBandLab's mastering update adds 11 intensity levels and 4 engineer-built presets
- BandLab now applies each mastering preset across 11 intensity levels instead of one fixed setting.
- Four new member presets, Natural, Cinematic, Spatial and Punch, join the existing Universal, Fire, Clarity and Tape.
- The new presets were designed with Grammy-winning engineers Mandy Parnell, Mike Tucci and Maria Elisa Ayerbe.
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I'm Christopher Wieduwilt. Founder of The AI Musicpreneur.
Christopher Wieduwilt
AI Music Educator & Journalist
I've been a musician for over 25 years — metal bands in Germany, a solo singer-songwriter project that toured the US coast to coast, 500,000+ plays on Myspace. Then Myspace crashed and I lost my entire fanbase overnight.
After that I worked inside the music industry for years on the business side: managing artists, working for record labels, organising concerts and festivals. Watched the same mistakes repeat on newer platforms.
In 2023, generative music AI started reshaping everything: production, promotion, rights, revenue. I started covering AI in music production in August 2023, before Suno's public launch. 200+ stories since.
Today the site is read by 20,000 music professionals every month — Grammy-winning engineers, artists, and people inside Warner Music, AWAL, Believe, Songtradr, and UnitedMasters.
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Frequently asked
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What is AI music and how does it work?
My article on What is AI music covers this in full: how AI models are trained on audio, what generation tools can and can't do, and where the copyright questions stand.
Will AI replace musicians?
The short answer is no, but the longer answer matters more. Will AI replace musicians breaks down what AI can produce, what it can't, and where human artists still have ground that's hard to take.
Is AI music copyrighted?
Practice is shifting. The US Copyright Office has ruled that purely AI-generated output doesn't qualify for copyright protection. Is AI music copyrighted covers the current legal position, the active lawsuits, and what this means for artists using AI tools in their work.
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