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- 14 Jul
AI Music News 14 JulBjörn Ulvaeus says AI deals should pay for training data, not chase every output
- Björn Ulvaeus gave the opening keynote at the United Nations' AI for Good Summit in Geneva, his most detailed speech yet on AI and creators.
- He argued the industry should be paid for the music that went into training a model, not for tracing individual outputs coming out of it.
- Ulvaeus pointed to early Spotify licensing as the template, where a share of platform revenue flowed collectively to rights holders.
- 14 Jul
AI Music News 14 JulIreland's parliament debates using its EU presidency to force AI copyright rules
- Sinn Féin culture spokesperson Aengus Ó Snodaigh tabled a motion asking Ireland to use its EU Council presidency to lead on AI and copyright.
- Ireland took over the six-month presidency of the Council of the European Union in early July 2026.
- The motion also asks for legislation on AI licensing, transparency, fair remuneration, and personality rights.
- 14 Jul
AI Music News 14 JulWarner says its union contract never covered AI, and asks a judge to throw out the AFM's lawsuit
- Warner asked Judge Edgardo Ramos to dismiss the AFM's breach-of-contract suit in a letter filed on July 10, 2026.
- Warner argues the Sound Recording Labor Agreement was signed in March 2023, before Suno and Udio existed, so it never covered AI licensing.
- Warner says Article 21, the "new use" clause the AFM's case rests on, only points to other agreements and confers no payment right on its own.
- 14 Jul
Tool News & Updates 14 JulLANDR puts $1 million into advances for artists who license their music to AI
- LANDR is adding a $1 million advance fund so Fair Trade AI artists can take money upfront instead of waiting on licensing revenue.
- The artist share of net licensing revenue rises from 20% to 25%, split by how much each artist contributed to the dataset.
- LANDR says the first Fair Trade AI payouts reach participating artists later this month, 2 years after the program launched in July 2024.
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- 13 Jul
AI Music News 13 JulA fake artist took 94% of Makeshift Hammer's Spotify royalties with a sped-up copy of their own album
- A fan tipped off Philadelphia duo Makeshift Hammer to 'Blue Road', an album by an unknown artist named Carey Dupont containing their songs at altered speed under lightly renamed titles
- The cloned tracks collected close to 50,000 listens each in a year, while many of the 4-year-old originals sat between 1,000 and 2,000
- By band member Owen Lyman-Schmidt's account, the clone captured 94% of the royalties his band's recordings earned on Spotify
- 13 Jul
AI Music News 13 Jul5 streaming platforms coordinated to remove Irving Azoff's GMR from US mechanical rate-setting
- A Phonorecords V motion shows Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Pandora and Google jointly moved to remove Global Music Rights from the US mechanical rate-setting process
- The platforms argue GMR is a performing rights organization without the 'significant interest' in mechanical rights required to participate
- Independent songwriter advocates including Eight Mile Style and the Songwriters Guild of America are preparing objections demanding a 15.65-cent physical mechanical rate
- 13 Jul
AI Music News 13 JulSuno says artists and platforms should decide on AI labels, not the RIAA suing it
- Suno responded to the RIAA and IFPI AI labelling proposal by saying it should be up to artists and platforms to decide how AI music is treated.
- The AI-Generated and AI-Assisted labels are voluntary, and no streaming service has committed to adopting them.
- DiMA, which represents Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music and YouTube, answered the labelling plan by asking rightsholders for better AI metadata.
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I'm Christopher Wieduwilt. Founder of The AI Musicpreneur.
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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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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