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- 30 Oct
30 OctBTS and Psy songs are on the 60,202-track list in UMG and Sony's second Suno lawsuit
- Psy's "Gangnam Style" (2012) and "Gentleman" (2013) are on the list of 60,202 recordings Universal Music Group and Sony Music say Suno used without permission, Korea JoongAng Daily reported on October 28, 2026.
- Two BTS collaborations are on the list too: "Bad Decisions" (2022) with Benny Blanco and Snoop Dogg, and "Waste It On Me" (2018) with Steve Aoki.
- will.i.am's "Gettin' Dumb" (2013), which features the girl group 2NE1, is also on the list.
- 30 Oct
30 OctLucian Grainge says streaming services should stop paying AI tracks the same as real artists
- Universal Music Group CEO Sir Lucian Grainge said on UMG's Q3 2026 earnings call on October 29 that pro-rata streaming payouts treat AI slop "the same as the greatest songs in the world."
- Grainge said unethically generated AI tracks should never be paid on the same basis as music with real demand, and asked why a music service would even host them.
- He said the structure of UMG's agreements with streaming services "has to change," as part of a new transformation phase that runs to the end of 2028.
- 30 Oct
30 OctSpotify plans to launch its AI covers and remixes tool in early 2027 at $4 to $5 a month, FT reports
- Spotify plans to launch its AI covers and remixes tool in the first quarter of 2027, the Financial Times reported on October 30, 2026.
- Spotify is weighing a price of $4 to $5 a month for the tool on top of a Premium subscription, and neither the price nor the timing is final.
- Royalties from fan remixes would go to the artists behind the original songs, and remix plays would count toward the original tracks on Spotify's charts.
- 30 Oct
30 OctSuno wants Apple to testify on whether Apple Music could survive without UMG and Sony
- Suno filed a 24-page opposition on October 27, 2026, asking a federal court in San Jose to deny Apple's motion to quash Suno's deposition subpoena.
- Suno wants an Apple witness to testify on 4 topics, including Apple's current licensing talks with UMG and Sony and whether Apple Music could run without their catalogs.
- Suno says the answers go to its fair use defense and to its copyright misuse defense, which claims the labels use their "must have" catalogs to win anti-AI deal terms.
- 30 Oct
30 OctZeds Dead on sampling in the AI era: “AI has no history”
- Zeds Dead talked about sampling and AI with Harry Levin in a MusicTech interview published on October 30, 2026.
- Zachary Rapp-Rovan (Hooks) said 'AI has no history' and called it 'an average of things that sound similar.'
- Rapp-Rovan said he's 'totally into' AI tools for stem separation and voice changing.
- 29 Oct
29 OctCopyright Alliance says Meta's November 20 terms let it scrape business accounts for AI, with no opt-out
- Meta's updated Commercial Terms take effect on November 20, 2026, for business use of Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, Threads and WhatsApp.
- The Copyright Alliance said on October 28 that the terms let Meta scrape business users' websites, including for generative AI, and called them unconscionable.
- Meta removed the word "train" from the crawling clause after Nieman Lab reported it on October 15, but kept the right to crawl domains linked to business accounts.
- 29 Oct
29 OctGene Simmons says musicians must learn AI, 'otherwise it will use you'
- Gene Simmons told NewsNation's The Hill on October 28, 2026 that musicians have to learn AI, "otherwise it will use you."
- The KISS co-founder, 77, did not say how he uses AI in his own music.
- He used the same interview to push the American Music Fairness Act, which would make AM and FM radio pay performers.
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- 29 Oct
29 OctSAMRO now makes members disclose AI use when registering songs, but sets no minimum human input
- SAMRO, the Southern African Music Rights Organisation, now requires members to disclose how much AI went into a song when they register it.
- SAMRO sets no minimum level of human contribution and says disclosure does not decide copyright eligibility or royalties.
- In SAMRO's April 2026 survey, 89.2% of 502 respondents said it should push for an AI protection law.
- 28 Oct
28 OctAnthropic's IPO filing names 5 music publisher lawsuits and warns a fair use loss could force it to retrain its models
- Anthropic filed its public S-1 with the SEC on October 26, 2026, and applied to list on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol ANT.
- The risk factors name 5 music publisher lawsuits, brought by Concord, BMG, Round Hill and Sony Music Publishing, and add 'and others'.
- Anthropic says the music publisher complaints seek unspecified damages and are in preliminary stages, and it gives no estimate of what they could cost.
- 28 Oct
28 OctEdged Out Records made free Halloween costumes for Meta's Muse AI agent to promote a Pretty Boy Ghosts song
- Independent label Edged Out Records published a free Halloween costume for Meta's Muse AI avatars on GitHub, based on the outfit its band Pretty Boy Ghosts wears in the "Duct Tape Pants" video.
- The costume is a set of images, a white PBG hoodie that doubles as a mask plus silver duct-tape pants, which users show their Muse with the line "wear this for Halloween".
- The project has grown into a free costume shop with outfits such as Dracula, a Mummy, Frankenstein's monster, Sherlock Holmes, Popeye and Betty Boop.
- 28 Oct
28 OctA fake AI single hit Gemma Hayes' Spotify and Apple Music profiles, and 3 days later Apple still lists it
- A 3-song single called "Taxi to Piccadilly" appeared on Gemma Hayes' official Spotify, Apple Music and YouTube profiles on Sunday, October 25, 2026, and Hayes says she didn't make it.
- On Wednesday, October 28, Apple Music still listed the single as her latest release, filed under Britpop and credited to a label called Planet Music.
- Hayes says the uploader appears to be an Indonesian entity credited as Composer & Lyricist, and her management couldn't get any of the 3 services to take the songs down.
- 28 Oct
28 OctAI K-pop boy group muuo:23 drew a fan backlash with its pre-debut single 'NEVERTHELESS'
- muuo:23 is a 5-member K-pop boy group of AI-generated digital artists, Taewon, Hamin, Yeonwoo, I-Hyun and Sei, made by South Korean company Creation Zipup.
- Its pre-debut digital single "NEVERTHELESS", with the title track "OVERSHOOT" and the B-side "Nectar", came out on October 14, 2026 at 6pm KST.
- Humans handle the music, choreography, styling and video direction, while the members' faces and identities are AI-generated.
- 27 Oct
27 OctApple asks a court to block Suno's subpoena, saying it already handed over data on Suno tracks
- Apple has asked a federal court in Northern California to quash Suno's subpoena, or to grant a protective order, Digital Music News reported on October 26, 2026.
- Apple says it already produced data and declarations about Suno-generated tracks on Apple Music after more than a year of talks with both sides.
- Suno's subpoena asks about Apple Music's minimum royalty guarantees to Universal and Sony, its terms for AI content, and how it calculates royalties for AI and non-AI audio.
- 27 Oct
27 OctPolice cut short Cryo Mix and Monetunes' Amsterdam Dance Event 2026 showcase at 21:30, after the hotel moved it 4 hours before doors
- Monetunes says police shut down Room Service, its showcase with Cryo Mix at Room Mate Aitana in Amsterdam, at 21:30 on October 22, 2026, during ADE week.
- The flyer billed the showcase from 18:00 to midnight, and Monetunes says it lost the hotel suite 4 hours before doors.
- Monetunes says its branding was banned, its 6 boxes of signage went missing, and some guests were charged at a paid-for open bar.
- 27 Oct
27 OctA judge has thrown out RBX's bot-stream lawsuit against Spotify for a second time
- Judge Josephine L. Staton dismissed RBX's class action against Spotify USA with prejudice on October 23, 2026, so the claims can't be refiled.
- RBX, whose real name is Eric Dwayne Collins, alleged that bots generated a non-trivial share of Drake's roughly 37 billion Spotify streams from January 2022 to September 2025.
- The court ruled twice that Spotify owed RBX no legal duty to protect him from third-party bot streams.
- 27 Oct
27 OctUniversal Music discussed going private with Apollo, TPG and Blackstone after its shares fell 29% this year
- Bloomberg reported on October 26, 2026 that Universal Music Group's management held preliminary talks earlier in 2026 with Apollo, TPG and Blackstone about taking the company private.
- The talks did not progress, UMG has not started a sale process, and its board is aware of the discussions.
- UMG's shares are down about 29% in 2026, below the 2021 listing price, for a market value of about €29 billion ($32 billion).
- 27 Oct
27 OctUniversal and Sony can depose the ex-Menlo investor who said Suno replaced her Spotify listening
- Magistrate Judge Paul G. Levenson let Universal Music Group and Sony Music serve a deposition subpoena on C.C. Gong on October 26, 2026, and depose her within 30 days.
- Gong, a former Principal at Suno investor Menlo Ventures, deleted a post saying she had shifted most of her listening to Suno because Spotify kept giving her the same overplayed recommendations.
- The labels say the post bears directly on the fourth fair use factor, which asks how Suno affects the market for their recordings.
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