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- 01 Jul
01 JulAustralia's music industry calls AI training the largest IP theft in its history
- Australia's leading music and creative groups issued a joint open letter demanding the government protect creators from mass-scale AI training.
- The coalition called the unauthorized use of Australian songs to train AI the largest theft of intellectual property in the industry's history.
- The trigger was a report that millions of Australian and New Zealand works sat inside four AI training datasets used without consent or payment.
- 30 Jun
30 JunNotes.fm launches Credits.fm, a free open database of 150M+ song credits for the AI era
- Notes.fm launched Credits.fm on June 30, 2026, a free open database indexing more than 150 million song codes and credits.
- Credits.fm is searchable across ISRC.fm, ISWC.fm, and IPI.fm, and ships an open API plus MCP so tools like Claude, Cursor, and ChatGPT can pull verified credits.
- Notes.fm says it has identified more than $10 million in unclaimed royalties in the past year, for artists including James Blake, Zach Bryan, and Mt. Joy.
- 30 Jun
30 JunTIDAL cuts off royalties for fully AI-generated music
- TIDAL will stop paying royalties on tracks it judges to be fully AI-generated, with the policy taking effect July 15, 2026.
- Fully AI tracks stay streamable but get an on-platform "AI" tag, lose royalty eligibility, and are blocked from TIDAL's direct-to-fan sales.
- TIDAL will use automated tools to remove AI tracks built to impersonate a real artist.
- 29 Jun
29 JunBackstreet Boys move to trademark their spoken voices against AI deepfakes
- BSB Entertainment filed a US sound-mark trademark for the spoken words Hi, we're the Backstreet Boys.
- Trademark firm Gerben IP spotted the application, submitted on June 24, 2026.
- The group joins Taylor Swift and Lionel Richie, who filed their own voice-related marks against AI clones.
- 29 Jun
29 JunEros launches Eros Music Worlds with seven AI-native artists and a Mohammed Rafi deal
- Eros Innovation launched Eros Music Worlds, an AI-powered music label and platform.
- It debuted seven AI-native artists across genres from alt rock to Bollywood pop.
- Eros signed a perpetual partnership with the family of late playback singer Mohammed Rafi.
- 29 Jun
29 JunGoogle pushes a middle way on US AI rules, including a Content ID style fix for copyright
- Google published a white paper on AI governance in America, setting out what it wants US policymakers to do.
- The report frames a middle way between over-regulation and no regulation of AI.
- Its section on creativity and copyright floats a Content ID style system to manage AI-generated music.
- 29 Jun
29 JunInnovate UK opens a £10m createch fund and music startups can apply
- Innovate UK opened a competition that will invest up to £10m in createch startups.
- The Next Wave Breakthrough Wave 1 competition funds projects with total costs of £100k to £500k.
- It is open to micro, small and medium UK companies working on early-stage, ambitious ideas.
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- 29 Jun
29 JunMadonna calls AI the complete opposite of making art in a new Vogue Italia interview
- Madonna told Vogue Italia that relying on AI tools is the complete opposite of making art.
- She said working only through algorithms and streaming numbers stops an artist from taking risks.
- The comment ties to her song Bring Your Love and its line about refusing to be distracted by numbers.
- 29 Jun
29 JunSIQA starts handing AI artists chart plaques, and Xania Monet gets the first one
- SIQA, billed as the first global AI music charts, is rolling out artist plaques for chart performance.
- The plaques certify AI artists the same way gold and platinum awards recognize traditional acts.
- Xania Monet, the first AI artist to reach a Billboard chart, received the first SIQA plaque.
- 26 Jun
26 JunThe first AI jazz festival, AI.LOVE.JAZZ, hits Montreux on July 9 and 10
- AI.LOVE.JAZZ runs July 9 and 10, 2026 at Casino Barrière Montreux, billed as the world's first global AI jazz contest and live event.
- It takes place during the 60th edition of the Montreux Jazz Festival, on the shoreline where Queen built a studio and Miles Davis returned for two decades.
- The House Jazz Band performs the top 15 AI-jazz finalists' tracks live on July 9, alongside a masterclass from US producer MoneOnDaBeat.
- 26 Jun
26 JunAI tracks are 46% of Roblox's top music but earn 58% of the likes
- In Audioscape's study of the 1,000 most-liked DistroKid tracks on Roblox, AI made up 46% of the tracks but earned 58% of the likes.
- Audioscape founder Sean Varah says 66% of the Roblox Top 100 is AI-generated, and players engage with AI tracks more than non-AI ones.
- One fully AI act, Beyond Bassline, has posted 422 tracks on Roblox, drawing 248,000 previews and 36,600 favorites with only 810 YouTube subscribers.
- 26 Jun
26 JunYamaha Creator Pass adds bundled DAWs and a $9.99 starter plan
- Yamaha Creator Pass added a Starter tier at $9.99 per month, below the $14.99 entry price it launched with in March.
- Growth and Pro subscribers can now download a full DAW free: Cubase 15 AI on monthly or yearly plans, and Ableton Live 12 Lite on yearly plans.
- A new Learning section adds step-by-step video tutorials, and discounts from Avid and FL Studio now apply to every pass.
- 25 Jun
25 JunDeezer launches Remix Lab, the first rights-cleared in-app remix feature
- Deezer launched Remix Lab in France, calling it the first streaming remix feature built with full rights compliance.
- Users can change genre, tempo, pitch, reverb, and EQ on tracks from participating artists like Céline Dion.
- Deezer says Remix Lab is not AI-powered; it edits at the stem level using the company's Spleeter technology.
- 25 Jun
25 JunModulate launches an AI music detection API as platforms face 75,000 AI uploads a day
- Boston company Modulate launched an AI Music Detection API that works from the audio itself, not metadata or creator disclosures.
- Two separate models score each 4-second window, one for AI vocals and one for AI instruments.
- The API returns a clip-level verdict plus per-window confidence scores, in batch or real-time streaming.
- 24 Jun
24 JunIndependent artists' Suno and Udio lawsuit adds the firm that beat Big Tobacco
- Hagens Berman, the firm that won a tobacco-industry settlement it values at $260 billion, joined the independent artists' class action against Suno and Udio.
- The firm filed an amended complaint against Udio on June 22, 2026 in New York, with Krystle Delgado of Delgado Entertainment Law remaining lead counsel.
- The artists' case, first filed in June 2025 by country musician Tony Justice, is separate from the major labels' RIAA lawsuits.
- 24 Jun
24 JunJamendo sues Nvidia, claiming it trained AI audio models on a research-only dataset
- Jamendo, the music licensing platform owned by Winamp Group, sued Nvidia on June 22, 2026 in California federal court over AI training.
- The suit claims Nvidia trained its Fugatto and Audio Flamingo audio models on the MTG-Jamendo research dataset, released for non-commercial use only.
- Jamendo seeks an injunction plus damages of no less than €17.8M (about $20.3M) and alleges Nvidia's infringement was willful.
- 24 Jun
24 JunTraxsource will label tracks human-made or AI-assisted, and remove fully-AI music
- Traxsource will add human-made and AI-assisted labels across its platform from July 1, 2026.
- It partnered with detection firms SH Labs and SoundPatrol to classify submissions; fully AI-generated tracks are flagged for removal.
- The move follows Traxsource's February 2026 statement that fully AI-generated music does not belong on the platform.
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