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AI Music News 03 NovAlphabet shareholder sues Pichai, Page and Brin, says Google trained Lyria on copyrighted songs to pay damages later
- Alphabet shareholder Phil Rosen sued Sundar Pichai, Larry Page, Sergey Brin and 10 other directors and executives in Chicago federal court on October 30, 2026.
- The complaint says Google trained Lyria, Lyria 2, Lyria 3, MuLan and MusicLM on copyrighted recordings, compositions and lyrics taken from YouTube, without permission or payment.
- It is a derivative suit, so any damages would go to Alphabet, not to Rosen, and it asks the court to force copyright oversight onto Google's AI training.
- 03 Nov
AI Music News 03 NovAfter beating Suno, GEMA wants AI music output to pay songwriters, says general counsel Kai Welp
- GEMA general counsel Dr. Kai Welp said on the Music Ally Focus podcast, published November 2, 2026, that output remuneration for songwriters and publishers is GEMA's top AI priority.
- Welp wants a collective payment claim on AI music whose sources can't be heard, owed by AI companies when the music is made and by users like streaming services and shops that play it.
- He said court wins alone won't solve AI copyright, because AI companies can train in low-copyright countries and use guardrails that hide copied songs.
- 03 Nov
AI Music News 03 NovAI act May the Lord Studio has the No. 1 song on US iTunes with 'Tell me, how is Heaven'
- 'Tell me, how is Heaven' by May the Lord Studio was the No. 1 song on Apple's US iTunes Top Songs chart on November 3, 2026.
- The gospel song about grief came out on July 25, 2026, and its official YouTube video had 2,728,401 views by November 3.
- May the Lord Studio's website says some voices, imagery and production may be created or supported using artificial intelligence.
- 03 Nov
AI Music News 03 NovA Grammy-winning drummer and a Suno-funded tech group told the court AI training is fair use, as the RIAA filed against OpenAI
- On October 30, 2026, the RIAA, NMPA, ASCAP, BMI and 5 other music groups asked Judge Sidney Stein to reject OpenAI's fair use defense in the authors' and New York Times case.
- The same day, Grammy-winning drummer Trevor Lawrence Jr., Chamber of Progress and the Abundance Institute filed a brief backing OpenAI, using drum machines and AI stem separation as their examples.
- Chamber of Progress lists Suno among its corporate partners, and its brief says those partners get no vote or veto over its positions.
- 03 Nov
AI Music News 03 NovSpotify's spam filter may be hiding real user playlists from search, says the 11A founder tracking 50 of them
- Austin Staubus, founder of the independent cover-song label 11A, says follower growth slowed on all 50 Spotify user playlists his company tracks, and 22 of them reversed or lost followers.
- All 50 playlists were rated "Likely Bot-Free" by the analytics service Artist.Tools, according to Staubus.
- In an October 7, 2026 interview with YouTuber Andrew Southworth, Staubus said he'd seen an unnamed Spotify executive confirm in writing that the spam filter makes inferences about user playlists and what's inside them.
- 03 Nov
AI Music News 03 Nov10 of the 45 K-pop idol groups that debuted in 2026 are virtual, says critic Lim Hee-yun
- Music critic Lim Hee-yun counted 10 virtual groups among the 45 K-pop idol groups that debuted in Korea from January to September 2026, and found that about a quarter of new solo acts were virtual too.
- He presented the research, made with the Manila consultancy Crosscurrent, at the 2026 Seoul Music Forum in western Seoul on November 1.
- The count covers acts that are virtual in some significant form, so it mixes human performers behind avatars, like PLAVE, with other kinds of virtual acts.
- 03 Nov
AI Music News 03 NovWendy's says its emo album wasn't made with AI. A YouTuber found a three-armed drummer
- YouTuber Jacobra published a video on November 3, 2026 alleging that Wendy's emo album "Songs to Listen to in a Wendy's Parking Lot" was built on AI-generated instrumentals.
- Wendy's said at launch on September 23, 2026 that the 6-track EP was "made by real musicians, not generated by AI."
- Jacobra's main evidence is a "three-armed drummer", drum parts that hit a flam and a cymbal at the same moment, which no drummer with 2 hands can play.
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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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Alphabet shareholder sues Pichai, Page and Brin, says Google trained Lyria on copyrighted songs to pay damages later
After beating Suno, GEMA wants AI music output to pay songwriters, says general counsel Kai Welp
AI act May the Lord Studio has the No. 1 song on US iTunes with 'Tell me, how is Heaven'
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Frequently asked
Frequently asked questions
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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How do AI music tools compare to traditional music production software?
Traditional DAWs give you full control with a steep learning curve. AI tools give you fast results with less manual work, but trade off some control. Most professional workflows now combine both: AI tools for ideation, stem separation, and mastering; the DAW for arrangement and final production decisions.
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