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  1. Suomen Virallinen Lista page on the Musiikkituottajat site, the Official Finnish Chart now closed to AI-generated music
    31 Aug

    Finland's official chart bans AI music unless humans made most of it with licensed tools

    • IFPI Finland has rewritten the acceptance criteria for the Official Finnish Chart, shutting out recordings created or produced entirely with AI.
    • AI recordings stay eligible only when they are predominantly made by humans and the AI services used are properly licensed and legal.
    • When a track's creation method is unclear, a chart committee decides. Songs exposed as AI-generated after charting can be removed retroactively.
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  2. Black and white press portrait of Jermaine Dupri in a leather jacket, founder of So So Def Recordings
    31 Aug

    Jermaine Dupri drops his $18M Sony royalty lawsuit before Sony filed a single response

    • Jermaine Dupri and his So So Def companies filed a notice of voluntary dismissal on August 28, 2026, ending an $18 million royalty lawsuit against Sony Music Entertainment seven weeks after filing it
    • The dismissal is without prejudice, so Dupri can bring the same claims again, and neither side has disclosed what the resolution involved
    • Sony Music never filed a response, so the allegations about Kris Kross, Xscape and Jagged Edge royalties were never tested in court
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  3. Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music logos facing the Anthropic logo above a copyright infringement caption
    31 Aug

    Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell sue Anthropic, naming Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann personally

    • Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music sued Anthropic on August 28, 2026 in the US District Court for the Northern District of California
    • The complaint names Anthropic co-founder and CEO Dario Amodei and co-founder Benjamin Mann as individual defendants alongside the company
    • The publishers seek statutory damages of up to $150,000 per work willfully infringed, plus up to $25,000 for each removal of copyright management information
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  4. Suno brand graphic, the AI music company whose two data breach class actions are now one consolidated case
    31 Aug

    Suno data breach lawsuits merge into one class action covering 55 million users

    • A federal judge in Massachusetts has consolidated the two class actions over the November 2025 Suno breach into a single case.
    • The plaintiffs have 30 days to file a consolidated complaint, and Suno then gets 45 days to respond.
    • Lynch Carpenter partner Gerald D. Wells III and Milberg's Casondra Turner are in place as interim co-lead class counsel.
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  5. Round Hill Music logo over a darkened studio photo of a tape reel and headphones, marking its Suno and Anthropic complaints
    28 Aug

    Anthropic and Suno both fight Round Hill's move to tie their two lawsuits together

    • Round Hill moved to relate, not consolidate, its separate August 17 lawsuits against Suno and Anthropic.
    • Anthropic and Suno each filed oppositions, arguing the two cases share only a plaintiff and a filing date.
    • Anthropic told the court the two suits cover different copyrights, sound recordings versus musical compositions only.
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  6. Caption page of the First Amended Complaint in UMG Recordings v. Suno, filed August 25, 2026 in the District of Massachusetts
    28 Aug

    Universal and Sony's amended Suno complaint puts stream ripping at the center of the case

    • Universal, Capitol and Sony filed a 35-page First Amended Complaint against Suno on August 25, 2026 in Boston federal court.
    • The complaint names YT-DL and YT-DLP as the tools it says Suno used to bypass YouTube's rolling cipher encryption.
    • Paragraph 53 states the labels are not presently alleging Suno's outputs infringe unless discovery shows the outputs recapture parts of their recordings.
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  7. The US Copyright Office Fee Study 2026 page on copyright.gov, explaining the proposed fee schedule submitted to Congress
    28 Aug

    US Copyright Office fees rise in November, and registering an album's sound recordings doubles to $130

    • The US Copyright Office sent its final proposed fee schedule to Congress in July 2026, starting a 120-day review that ends around November 12.
    • Group registration of an album's sound recordings goes from $65 to $130, while the same registration for the compositions goes from $65 to $85.
    • The Office cut the musical works increase after public comments but left the sound recordings increase untouched.
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  9. Country artist Tony Justice at the wheel of his truck beside the Suno logo, captioned copyright and DMCA claims proceed
    27 Aug

    Judge lets indie artist Tony Justice's copyright and DMCA claims against Suno go forward

    • Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV denied Suno's motion to dismiss the copyright and DMCA claims brought by country artist Tony Justice and 5th Wheel Records.
    • The only count dismissed was a claim under the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act.
    • Saylor wrote there is no categorical requirement for a plaintiff to produce the derivative work at the motion to dismiss stage.
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  10. The Stability AI wordmark beside the Universal, Sony and Warner Music Group logos, captioned $76M Series B
    27 Aug

    Universal, Sony and Warner buy equity in Stability AI's $76M Series B

    • Universal Music Group, Sony Music Group and Warner Music Group all took equity in Stability AI as part of a $76 million Series B.
    • Electronic Arts, AMD Ventures and Pacific Alliance Ventures joined the same round.
    • The Series B brings Stability AI's total funding under CEO Prem Akkaraju to $232 million since he joined in 2024.
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  11. American Federation of Musicians seal and the Warner Music Group logo side by side above a line reading breach of contract, Sound Recording Labor Agreement
    25 Aug

    AFM makes the Warner Music Group Corp. drop official, and the AI pay case rolls on

    • The AFM filed a voluntary dismissal notice shelving its case "without prejudice, strictly and only as to Defendant WARNER MUSIC GROUP CORP."
    • Warner Records and Atlantic stay in the case, along with Universal Music Group.
    • Counsel for the AFM confirmed to Digital Music News that the lawsuit itself is very much alive.
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  12. ARIA AI music standards graphic with glowing equalizer bars, marking the chart eligibility code update
    25 Aug

    ARIA bans wholly AI-generated songs from the Australian charts from Friday

    • ARIA updated its Charts Code of Practice on August 25, 2026, excluding recordings made with generative AI unless they are "substantially human-made".
    • The rule bites from the charts published on Friday, August 28, 2026.
    • ARIA can now pull ineligible recordings, change chart positions and revoke chart awards, and artists can contest an exclusion.
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  13. Jimmy Iovine, Interscope Records co-founder, who said in August 2026 there are a lot of closet AI producers working in music
    25 Aug

    Did Jimmy Iovine call Timbaland a closet AI producer? Timbaland clarified it himself

    • Jimmy Iovine named Timbaland as an AI user in praise, then made a separate remark that "there's a lot of closet AI producers out there"
    • Several outlets merged the two statements and reported that Iovine had called Timbaland a closet AI producer, which he did not say
    • Timbaland commented on my TikTok post to say the closet framing is not true, and his record backs him up
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