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- 05 Jun
05 JunCISAC's Paris Commitment asks policymakers to protect human creativity from AI
- CISAC adopted the Paris Commitment at its General Assembly in Paris on June 4, 2026.
- CISAC is the global network of authors' societies, representing more than 5 million creators.
- The declaration sets four principles covering protection, transparency, collective management, and government action.
- 05 Jun
05 JunH.R. 6028 could reshape who runs the US Copyright Office, and how AI music cases get judged
- H.R. 6028 would remove the US Copyright Office from the supervision of the Library of Congress.
- The Register of Copyrights would become a presidential nominee confirmed by the Senate for a 10-year term.
- The bill landed after the 2025 firing and court-ordered reinstatement of Register Shira Perlmutter.
- 05 Jun
05 JunProtect Working Musicians Act returns, letting indie artists collectively negotiate with AI and streamers
- A coalition of music groups backs reintroducing the Protect Working Musicians Act, championed by Rep. Deborah Ross.
- The bill would let independent artists and labels collectively negotiate with AI companies and streaming services.
- It creates an antitrust exemption so indie musicians can bargain as a group without legal risk.
- 03 Jun
03 JunARIA boss Annabelle Herd rejects Scott Farquhar's call to weaken AI copyright law
- ARIA CEO Annabelle Herd rejected a call by Tech Council of Australia chair Scott Farquhar to loosen copyright law for AI training.
- Farquhar told the AFR AI Summit that training AI in Australia would mean cutting a deal with every recording artist in the world.
- Herd said four licensing deals, one with each major label and one with Merlin, would cover about 80% of the world's recordings.
- 03 Jun
03 JunSuno raises $400 million Series D at a $5.4 billion valuation
- Suno raised over $400 million in Series D funding at a $5.4 billion post-money valuation, announced June 3, 2026.
- Bond Capital led the round, joined by IVP, Forerunner, Union Square Ventures, Alkeon, and Quiet, with existing backers Matrix, Lightspeed, Menlo Ventures, and Schroders Capital.
- The valuation more than doubles the $2.45 billion Suno reported in November 2025, when it raised $250 million on roughly $200 million in revenue.
- 03 Jun
03 JunUdio asks a New York court to seal the number of audio files it trained on
- Udio filed a June 1, 2026 motion in New York federal court to seal one figure, the total number of audio files used to train its AI music model.
- Udio's lawyers call it the "Training Data Number" and argue rivals could use it to build competing products faster and more cheaply.
- The motion came days after Suno made the same request in its own Boston copyright case.
- 02 Jun
02 JunAnthropic files for an IPO at a $965B valuation while the music publishers' case rolls on
- Anthropic filed a confidential draft registration statement with the SEC for a proposed IPO, with share count and price still undecided.
- A recent raise pushed Anthropic's valuation to $965 billion, ahead of OpenAI's $852 billion.
- Anthropic said its run-rate revenue crossed $47 billion this month.
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- 02 Jun
02 JunUS Copyright Office leaders will headline the AIMP publishing summit on June 9
- The 2026 AIMP Global Music Publishing Summit hosts a fireside chat with the US Copyright Office on Tuesday, June 9 in New York City.
- Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter and General Counsel Emily L. Chapuis will speak, moderated by Songtradr's Art Levy.
- Chapuis helped lead the Office's multi-part report on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence.
- 02 Jun
02 JunSuno asks a federal court to seal the number of audio files it trained on
- Suno filed a May 29, 2026 motion to impound a single figure, the total number of audio files used to train its AI music model.
- CTO Georg Kucsko argues the count is not public and that rivals could use it to benchmark their own systems against Suno's.
- Journalist Matthew Lee of Inner City Press is pushing the court to unseal the number as a matter of public concern.
- 02 Jun
02 JunUK music-tech funding fell to £68.8M in 2025, a new MTUK report warns
- MTUK's second annual Sound Investments report finds UK music-tech funding peaked at £183m in 2021 and fell to £68.8m in 2025.
- Over the same period, overall UK tech funding dropped only 4.4%.
- Seed-stage music-tech investment grew from £8.4m in 2020 to £22.1m in 2025.
- 01 Jun 01 Jun
Anthropic raises $65 billion days after music publishers drop a key claim
- Anthropic raised $65 billion on May 28, 2026, at a $965 billion post-money valuation, ahead of OpenAI's $852 billion mark
- The round landed the same week music publishers, including Concord and Universal, dropped their vicarious infringement claim against Anthropic
- That retreat traces to the Supreme Court's pro-Cox ruling, which narrowed secondary copyright liability across AI cases
- 01 Jun
01 JunABBA's Björn Ulvaeus says creators are 'not in the room' as AI laws take shape
- CISAC President Björn Ulvaeus, of ABBA, used the body's annual report to say human creators' voices are 'not being heard' in AI copyright talks
- Ulvaeus said creators 'are not in the room' as governments write new AI laws and run consultations
- He warned creators are 'being left out of the economic picture' and 'not being remunerated' for work used to train AI