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- 24 Jul
24 JulAFM 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 JulSuno 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.
- 21 Jul
21 JulAI music passes 50% of Deezer's daily uploads, and Deezer starts deleting it
- Fully AI-generated music passed 50% of all new tracks uploaded to Deezer for the first time in June 2026, peaking at close to 90,000 tracks a day.
- The flood is accelerating, up from 75,000 daily AI tracks and a 44% share when Deezer last reported the numbers in April 2026.
- Deezer will now delete AI tracks used to inflate streams fraudulently, plus AI tracks nobody has streamed in six months or more.
- 21 Jul
21 JulIndonesia drafts Southeast Asia's first AI copyright law, with a ban on style imitation
- Indonesia is drafting a copyright bill making it the first country in Southeast Asia to write AI directly into its copyright framework.
- The draft bans AI imitation of a creator's distinct style, a protection copyright law does not offer in most of the world.
- AI-assisted works would get copyright protection only with human contribution, while fully AI-generated works get none.
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- 21 Jul
21 JulPatreon stops asking and starts blocking AI training crawlers with Cloudflare
- Patreon announced on July 17, 2026, it now blocks AI training crawlers across the platform using Cloudflare's AI Crawl Control technology.
- During testing, individual AI crawlers' weekly access attempts dropped from thousands to zero, proof the bots had been ignoring Patreon's robots.txt requests.
- Bots indexing pages to send users back to Patreon stay allowed, only crawlers harvesting content for AI training get blocked.
- 21 Jul
21 JulSOCAN partners with Musical AI to build opt-in AI attribution for 200,000 music creators
- SOCAN named Musical AI an approved technology partner for AI attribution on July 21, 2026
- The deal rests on 2 principles: AI use of members' music stays opt-in, and creators get credit and payment when their work shapes an AI output
- Musical AI's technology traces how much each source influenced an AI-generated track, assessed separately for compositions and sound recordings
- 21 Jul
21 JulSony Music files a second Udio lawsuit, putting 30,117 blocked recordings back in play
- Sony Music filed a second copyright lawsuit against Udio on July 20, 2026, in the Southern District of New York, asserting 30,117 sound recordings.
- The recordings are the same works a judge barred Sony from adding to its original 2024 case weeks earlier.
- Sony identified the works by audio fingerprinting Udio's training data in discovery and calls them "only a small portion" of the matches it found.
- 21 Jul
21 JulTikTok tests AI likeness detection with US creators, ID scan required
- TikTok is testing an opt-in likeness detection tool that scans the platform for AI-generated content using a creator's face without consent.
- The test is limited to a small group of US creators and was first spotted by social media consultant Matt Navarra in July 2026.
- Creators must verify their identity through Jumio with a real-time selfie and a government ID before the scanning activates.
- 17 Jul
17 JulLorde publicly torches Spotify's AI 'About the Song' feature
- Lorde called out Spotify's AI About the Song feature in an Instagram Story on July 16, 2026, after it published incorrect context about one of her songs
- She asked Spotify to at least let artists opt out, saying AI-generated meaning at the source limits free interpretation
- Spotify confirmed the inaccurate text about Lorde's song has been removed, but the feature stays live in beta