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- 17 Aug
AI Music News 17 AugTwo Suno copyright lawsuits ended this month, and neither Jamendo nor The American Dollar said why
- Two copyright infringement lawsuits against Suno ended in August 2026, months after they were filed.
- EDM duo The American Dollar, litigating as Poseidon Wave Media, dismissed with prejudice, so the claims cannot be refiled.
- Jamendo, the licensing arm of Winamp Group, dismissed without prejudice and can bring the case again.
- 17 Aug
AI Music News 17 AugRiver Cain does not exist, and his AI country songs sit at No. 3 and No. 4 on the iTunes chart
- River Cain, an AI-created country act, holds 5 singles on the iTunes chart, with "Hell Out of Me" at No. 3 and "Mama's Boy" at No. 4.
- An album sits at No. 55 on the same chart, and a second album is dated for September 4, 2026.
- The songs were released around December 2025 and April 2026, and only started climbing in August.
- 17 Aug
Tool News & Updates 17 AugGoogle lets you switch off the visible AI watermark on Gemini songs, and SynthID stays regardless
- Google announced a Media Watermark setting on August 14, 2026 that makes the visible AI mark optional on Gemini output.
- The toggle covers images, video and music, and applies to the Nano Banana, Omni and Lyria models.
- Invisible SynthID watermarks and C2PA metadata stay embedded whether the visible mark is on or off.
- 17 Aug
Music Intelligence 17 AugBaroness Keeley urges Andy Burnham to rule out a commercial AI training exception
- Baroness Keeley, chair of the House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee, published an open appeal to Prime Minister Andy Burnham on August 17, 2026.
- She asked the government to firmly rule out adding a broad commercial text and data mining exception to UK copyright law.
- Her committee wants licensing made the top priority, backed by a mandatory transparency framework so rightsholders can see whether their work trained a model.
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- 14 Aug
AI Music News 14 AugBeatport bans fully AI-generated music, and only 8% of its users want to hear it
- Beatport updated its Content Guidelines on August 12, 2026 to block tracks that are fully or majority AI-generated.
- Flagged uploads are withheld during ingestion and the rightsholder is notified directly, rather than removed after release.
- AI-assisted tracks are still accepted if the finished record stays majority human-made, and they get tagged for Beatport's curation team.
- 14 Aug
AI Music News 14 AugKobalt signs Spotify's AI covers and remixes deal, the first publisher outside Universal
- Spotify and Kobalt announced a licensing agreement on August 13, 2026 covering Spotify's upcoming AI-powered covers and remixes tool.
- It is Spotify's first deal for the tool with a music publisher other than Universal Music Group.
- Participating songwriters share in revenue from the feature, which launches as a paid add-on for Spotify Premium subscribers.
- 14 Aug
AI Music News 14 AugTwitch's product chief on AI training: 'If this was opt-in, nobody would opt in'
- Twitch content is used to train parent company Amazon's generative AI models by default, with an opt-out toggle rather than an opt-in choice.
- Twitch chief product officer Mike Minton told streamers on a livestream that an opt-in system would get almost no takers.
- Asked whether streams had already been used for training, Minton said he did not know what Amazon had used.
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I'm Christopher Wieduwilt. Founder of The AI Musicpreneur.
Christopher Wieduwilt
AI Music Educator & Journalist
I've been a musician for over 25 years — metal bands in Germany, a solo singer-songwriter project that toured the US coast to coast, 500,000+ plays on Myspace. Then Myspace crashed and I lost my entire fanbase overnight.
After that I worked inside the music industry for years on the business side: managing artists, working for record labels, organising concerts and festivals. Watched the same mistakes repeat on newer platforms.
In 2023, generative music AI started reshaping everything: production, promotion, rights, revenue. I started covering AI in music production in August 2023, before Suno's public launch. 200+ stories since.
Today the site is read by 20,000 music professionals every month — Grammy-winning engineers, artists, and people inside Warner Music, AWAL, Believe, Songtradr, and UnitedMasters.
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Frequently asked
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What is AI music and how does it work?
My article on What is AI music covers this in full: how AI models are trained on audio, what generation tools can and can't do, and where the copyright questions stand.
Will AI replace musicians?
The short answer is no, but the longer answer matters more. Will AI replace musicians breaks down what AI can produce, what it can't, and where human artists still have ground that's hard to take.
Is AI music copyrighted?
Practice is shifting. The US Copyright Office has ruled that purely AI-generated output doesn't qualify for copyright protection. Is AI music copyrighted covers the current legal position, the active lawsuits, and what this means for artists using AI tools in their work.
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