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- 26 Oct
AI Music News 26 OctAustralian screen composers launch “Human Made” AI copyright campaign at the 2026 Screen Music Awards
- The Australian Guild of Screen Composers launches its Human Made campaign at the APRA AMCOS Screen Music Awards in Brisbane on Wednesday, October 28, 2026.
- The campaign asks for a licensing system that pays composers who choose to opt in to AI training, instead of letting AI train on their work by default.
- Composer Antony Partos, who leads it, says Sonar Music composers are being asked to recreate AI-generated tracks so productions can claim a human author.
- 26 Oct
AI Music News 26 OctAnthropic's Claude Duet agent can work with Spotify, Ticketmaster, Splice and Viberate, but only in the US for now
- Anthropic opened a research preview of Claude Duet on October 21, 2026, a proactive agent built on Claude Opus 5.5.
- Duet is limited to Pro and Max subscribers in the US for now, by waitlist, as a standalone iOS and Android app and on claude.ai.
- It carries over the apps you've connected to Claude, and Claude's connector directory includes Spotify, Ticketmaster, Splice and Viberate.
- 26 Oct
AI Music News 26 OctElvis Presley's rights owners sue Anthropic over 274 songs, seeking $41.1 million
- Elvis Presley's rights owners sued Anthropic on October 23, 2026 in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, case 5:26-cv-12473.
- The lead plaintiff is ABG EPE IP LLC, a unit of Authentic Brands Group, joined by other companies that hold rights in Presley's music.
- The complaint covers 274 songs, including “Can't Help Falling in Love”, “Don't Be Cruel” and “A Little Less Conversation”.
- 26 Oct
AI Music News 26 OctChina's AI rap “Guo Lai Ren” passes 120 million views, made by 1 creator in 3 to 4 days
- The AI rap video “Guo Lai Ren” (过来人, The OGs) passed 120 million views across Chinese platforms by 9pm on October 22, 2026.
- Douyin accounts for about 75 million of those views and WeChat Channels for about 45 million.
- Du Fu, Su Shi and Liu Bang rap the 3 verses about renting in middle age, layoffs at 35 and starting late, and 7 more historical figures join for the finale.
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- 26 Oct
AI Music News 26 OctMunich Music Labs wants startups and investors to help build its music tech venture lab in the ecosystem of TUM, the EU's top-ranked university
- Munich Music Labs, a nonprofit student initiative at the Technical University of Munich founded in 2025, plans to launch a music tech venture lab and invites startups and investors to help shape it.
- In its first year it built a community of 60+ members, ran 17 Knowledge Sharing Sessions and started research projects with BMAT Music Innovators and Klangio.
- Hackatune 2026 brought 20 teams and more than 100 participants to TUM for 48 hours, with 4 challenges set by Impulse Audio Lab, Cyanite, Klangio and Neural Frames.
- 26 Oct
AI Music News 26 OctPozalabs reveals AI producer Steal Saturday as its own act, with a 5-track ballad EP
- Seoul AI music company Pozalabs said that the AI producer Steal Saturday is an act it created, the first time it has said so officially, with an EP released on October 26, 2026.
- The reveal came with Steal Saturday's 5-track EP “그럼에도, 오늘은” (Even So, Today), a set of ballads built on band sound, acoustic guitar and strings.
- Three guest vocalists, Naran, Seo Jeong-gil and Eliot Rue, appear on 4 of the 5 tracks, and Steal Saturday sings 1 itself.
- 26 Oct
Tool Roundup 26 OctBest Claude connectors for musicians in 2026: 15 music apps and how to use them
- Claude's connector directory listed 1,011 connectors on October 26, 2026, and 15 of them do a music job.
- Viberate's free plan includes all 23 of its tools with limits, so you can pull your listeners by city and the playlists similar artists sit on without paying.
- With Kit or beehiiv connected, you write a fan email in one Claude chat and send it into your email tool from the same chat.
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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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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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How do AI music tools compare to traditional music production software?
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