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- 01 Sept
AI Music News 01 SeptSpam farms hijacked jazz legends' streaming profiles to release AI tracks
- AI-generated tracks were uploaded to the Spotify, Amazon Music and YouTube profiles of jazz musicians including William "Sonny" Criss, Red Nichols and Jimmie Noone.
- Criss died in 1977 and Noone died in 1944, yet both had new singles appear on their profiles this year.
- The uploads were credited to a publisher named "Ami bacuk" and, on the Criss tracks, a composer named "Zainul Irpan."
- 01 Sept
AI Music News 01 SeptUdio admits it pulled training data with yt-dlp, then argues that's fair use
- Udio filed its formal answer to Sony Music's second copyright lawsuit, which asserted 30,117 sound recordings in July 2026.
- The answer acknowledges Udio acquired some of its training data using yt-dlp, an open-source tool that downloads audio from YouTube.
- Udio already admitted scraping YouTube audio in April 2026, answering Sony's amended complaint in the original case. The new filing names the tool.
- 01 Sept
Tool News & Updates 01 SeptSoundBoost hits 180,000 users and 540,000 masters, adds mobile apps and AI mastering engineers
- SoundBoost grew from 34,500 users last December to more than 180,000 today, with 540,000 masters processed
- Mastering Engine 3.6 takes stem-level prompts like remove the drums, and Realtime Mode lets you steer a master with your voice
- Guitar and piano stems, Chords Mode, Lyrics Mode, looping and an adaptive metronome are free to use
- 01 Sept
Tool News & Updates 01 SeptTONE3000 launches free open-source guitar and bass plugin with 700,000 tones
- TONE3000 released the free, open-source TONE3000 Plugin and standalone app on September 1, 2026.
- The plugin streams the full library of 700,000+ NAM captures and impulse responses directly inside the plugin window, with no downloading or file management.
- It ships as VST3, AU, AAX, CLAP, LV2 and standalone for macOS, Windows and Linux, and runs in every major DAW.
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- 01 Sept
Music Intelligence 01 SeptMusicians are hunting AI grifters by ear, and the evidence is thinner than the confidence
- EDM producers Max Harris (H4RRIS) and Nihil Young are publicly naming tracks they believe were made with Suno, using listening alone.
- Their stated tells are a sharp hiss, similar vocals, and arrangement choices they say no human would make. Hiss riding a vocal is a strong signal, but it belongs at the start of a verification process rather than the end.
- Josh Fawaz added AI credits to a Madonna cover after backlash, and Fenix Flexin denied using AI until scrutiny forced an admission.
- 31 Aug
AI Music News 31 AugFinland's official chart bans AI music unless humans made most of it with licensed tools
- IFPI Finland has rewritten the acceptance criteria for the Official Finnish Chart, shutting out recordings created or produced entirely with AI.
- AI recordings stay eligible only when they are predominantly made by humans and the AI services used are properly licensed and legal.
- When a track's creation method is unclear, a chart committee decides. Songs exposed as AI-generated after charting can be removed retroactively.
- 31 Aug
AI Music News 31 AugJermaine Dupri drops his $18M Sony royalty lawsuit before Sony filed a single response
- Jermaine Dupri and his So So Def companies filed a notice of voluntary dismissal on August 28, 2026, ending an $18 million royalty lawsuit against Sony Music Entertainment seven weeks after filing it
- The dismissal is without prejudice, so Dupri can bring the same claims again, and neither side has disclosed what the resolution involved
- Sony Music never filed a response, so the allegations about Kris Kross, Xscape and Jagged Edge royalties were never tested in court
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Christopher Wieduwilt
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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