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- 03 Aug
03 AugARIA is working on AI chart rules after an AI Madonna rework topped Australian radio
- ARIA confirmed on August 3, 2026 it is "working through" what an AI chart change could look like for the official Australian charts.
- The framework under discussion would exclude generative AI recordings unless they use authorised infrastructure and show human-led artistry.
- Josh Fawaz's AI rework of Madonna's "Like A Prayer," released in April, topped the Radio Monitor Hot 100 in June as Australia's most-played radio song.
- 03 Aug
03 AugCharli xcx's producers used AI plugin Concatenator to build No One Lasts Forever
- AG Cook and Finn Keane used Concatenator, an AI "audio mosaicing" plugin by DataMind Audio, on Charli xcx's "No One Lasts Forever" from Music, Fashion, Film.
- The producers ran a studio jam session through the plugin, with MS-20, Vermona, and Prophet hardware in the sample pool.
- Concatenator indexes samples by timbre, pitch, and amplitude, then rebuilds incoming audio in real time from the closest matching fragments.
- 03 Aug
03 AugMilk & Honey founder sues Silicon Valley couple for $5M over AI music software he says they stole
- Grammy-winning producer Warren "Oak" Felder and Milk & Honey founder Lucas Keller filed a $5 million lawsuit against tech entrepreneurs Walter and Samia De Brouwer in Los Angeles Superior Court.
- The 2023 collaboration produced AI music software with a proprietary "copyright checker" designed to detect copyrighted chords.
- Felder and Keller each received 345,000 shares in the De Brouwers' company Snowcrash, set to vest through 2028.
- 03 Aug
03 AugTyga's $TARFACE faces AI accusations after producer Medasin flags 'AFFECTION' as likely AI
- Producer Medasin publicly accused Tyga's July 31 album $TARFACE of using AI, tagging Tyga and EMPIRE on X on August 1, 2026.
- Medasin says a detection model built by Human Standard flagged the single "AFFECTION" as "likely AI," generated with Treblo software.
- He made the same accusation against Fenix Flexin's "RUBBERZ" and points to EMPIRE's involvement in both projects as a pattern.
- 31 Jul
31 JulGEMA wins Suno lawsuit: Munich court delivers first European ruling that AI music training needs a license
- Judge Elke Schwager of the Munich Regional Court ruled for GEMA on July 31, 2026, siding with the collecting society on virtually all points.
- The court held storing songs inside Suno's model violates the reproduction right, and serving outputs to users violates the making-available right.
- Suno must disclose its revenues to GEMA and pay damages, with the amount still to be set.
- 30 Jul
30 JulA judge denied Donald Passman's late opt-out, binding him to Anthropic's $1.5B settlement
- Federal judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín denied Donald Passman's request for a late opt-out in her order approving Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement.
- Anthropic trained Claude on ten editions of Passman's All You Need to Know About the Music Business without permission.
- The judge cited settlement-administrator records showing multiple notices mailed to Passman's address, none returned as undelivered.
- 30 Jul
30 JulHYBE is liquidating Supertone, the AI voice company it put $35M into
- Supertone's shareholders resolved to dissolve the company and place it into liquidation, per a regulatory disclosure filed July 23, 2026.
- HYBE put nearly KRW 49 billion, around $35 million, into Supertone across investments in 2021 and 2022.
- Supertone posted revenue of KRW 2.3 billion ($1.6 million) last year against an operating loss of KRW 15.4 billion ($10.5 million).
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- 30 Jul
30 JulSuno faces two class action lawsuits over the breach that exposed 55.3 million users
- Two proposed class actions have been filed against Suno over the November 2025 breach that exposed data tied to 55.3 million users.
- One suit was filed on July 24, 2026 in the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts.
- The complaints allege Suno stored user data in a "negligent and/or reckless manner" and was already "on notice" that the attack vector was a known risk.
- 28 Jul
28 JulAFM names Warner Records and Atlantic in amended AI pay suit, and puts Udio's Starstruck at the center
- The AFM filed its first amended complaint against Universal Music and Warner in late July 2026.
- The union dropped Warner Music Group Corp. as a defendant and named Warner Records and Atlantic instead.
- Warner had argued it was the wrong defendant because it never signed the Sound Recording Labor Agreement.
- 28 Jul
28 JulD'Addario's AI denial backfired after YouTubers picked apart its proof video
- D'Addario was accused of using AI-generated music in a demo video for its new NYXL HD guitar strings.
- The company denied it, saying all guitars were tracked live and the drums and synths were MIDI programmed.
- D'Addario told Guitar World its brand is "grounded in authenticity" and it never uses AI for marketing music.
- 28 Jul
28 JulIndian judge rules ChatGPT training was legal under a private research copyright exception
- Judge Amit Bansal refused ANI's bid for an interim injunction against OpenAI in July 2026.
- He ruled OpenAI's storage of ANI content was "purely private" because it sat in a closed space with no public access.
- He also found AI training resembles research, which brought it inside India's private research exception.
- 28 Jul
28 JulSpotify won't label AI music, so fans built SoullessMusic and SlopTracker to do it
- Spotify still does not label AI-generated music, so volunteers have built their own public databases.
- SoullessMusic lists 232 AI artists and 823 analysed songs, with a confidence score attached to each act.
- SlopTracker estimates the AI acts it tracks have drawn $2.1 million in earnings and 25,913 premium subscriptions a month.
- 24 Jul 24 Jul
AFM calls the majors' 'new use' reading nonsensical, urges court to keep its AI pay lawsuit alive
- The AFM filed its response opposing Universal and Warner's dismissal bids on July 17, 2026.
- The union told Judge Edgardo Ramos that Article 21(a) of the SRLA imposes an independent, mandatory "shall pay" obligation for all new uses.
- It called the majors' reading, which limits the clause to uses with a pre-set rate, "nonsensical."
- 24 Jul
24 JulMusic publishers refile the Anthropic lyrics case with direct infringement front and center
- Music publishers led by Concord and BMG refiled their second amended complaint against Anthropic on July 22, 2026, under a redaction-related court order.
- Direct infringement and copyright management information (CMI) removal are now the central claims, after the publishers dropped their contributory and vicarious claims.
- The retreat from secondary liability follows the Supreme Court's Cox v. Sony Music ruling, which narrowed those theories.
- 24 Jul
24 JulGEMA launches PLAI, a licensed AI training dataset, as Klangio signs on first
- GEMA launched PLAI by GEMA, a licensed music dataset built for training AI music tools, with Karlsruhe transcription firm Klangio as its first named customer.
- The dataset holds about 178,000 audio files drawn from roughly 57,000 works across 60+ genres, bundling authors' rights, master rights, the sound files, and metadata from one source.
- Five production-music partners supply the catalogue: Bailer Music Publishing, Earmotion Audio Creation, Intervox Production Music, Music Sculptor, and Sonoton Music.
- 24 Jul
24 JulPLAI by GEMA explained: what the licensed AI music training dataset is, what it includes, and how creators get paid
- PLAI by GEMA is a licensed music dataset that GEMA sells to AI companies for training their music tools, bundling authors' rights, master rights, sound files, and metadata from one source.
- The dataset holds about 178,000 audio files drawn from roughly 57,000 works across more than 60 genres, and packages can be tailored to a customer's model and use case.
- Karlsruhe transcription company Klangio is the first named customer, a narrow use case that fits the dataset's production-music makeup.
- 24 Jul 24 Jul
Suno admits a 2025 breach exposed 55 million users' personal data
- Suno confirmed a November 2025 security incident that reportedly exposed the personal data of 55.3 million users.
- Have I Been Pwned obtained the dataset on July 20, 2026, and found over 55 million unique email addresses plus phone numbers.
- Tens of thousands of Stripe records also held customer names, physical addresses, purchase amounts, and partial card details.
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