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- 27 Oct
AI Music News 27 OctApple asks a court to block Suno's subpoena, saying it already handed over data on Suno tracks
- Apple has asked a federal court in Northern California to quash Suno's subpoena, or to grant a protective order, Digital Music News reported on October 26, 2026.
- Apple says it already produced data and declarations about Suno-generated tracks on Apple Music after more than a year of talks with both sides.
- Suno's subpoena asks about Apple Music's minimum royalty guarantees to Universal and Sony, its terms for AI content, and how it calculates royalties for AI and non-AI audio.
- 27 Oct
AI Music News 27 OctPolice cut short Cryo Mix and Monetunes' Amsterdam Dance Event 2026 showcase at 21:30, after the hotel moved it 4 hours before doors
- Monetunes says police shut down Room Service, its showcase with Cryo Mix at Room Mate Aitana in Amsterdam, at 21:30 on October 22, 2026, during ADE week.
- The flyer billed the showcase from 18:00 to midnight, and Monetunes says it lost the hotel suite 4 hours before doors.
- Monetunes says its branding was banned, its 6 boxes of signage went missing, and some guests were charged at a paid-for open bar.
- 27 Oct
AI Music News 27 OctA judge has thrown out RBX's bot-stream lawsuit against Spotify for a second time
- Judge Josephine L. Staton dismissed RBX's class action against Spotify USA with prejudice on October 23, 2026, so the claims can't be refiled.
- RBX, whose real name is Eric Dwayne Collins, alleged that bots generated a non-trivial share of Drake's roughly 37 billion Spotify streams from January 2022 to September 2025.
- The court ruled twice that Spotify owed RBX no legal duty to protect him from third-party bot streams.
- 27 Oct
AI Music News 27 OctUniversal Music discussed going private with Apollo, TPG and Blackstone after its shares fell 29% this year
- Bloomberg reported on October 26, 2026 that Universal Music Group's management held preliminary talks earlier in 2026 with Apollo, TPG and Blackstone about taking the company private.
- The talks did not progress, UMG has not started a sale process, and its board is aware of the discussions.
- UMG's shares are down about 29% in 2026, below the 2021 listing price, for a market value of about €29 billion ($32 billion).
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- 27 Oct
AI Music News 27 OctUniversal and Sony can depose the ex-Menlo investor who said Suno replaced her Spotify listening
- Magistrate Judge Paul G. Levenson let Universal Music Group and Sony Music serve a deposition subpoena on C.C. Gong on October 26, 2026, and depose her within 30 days.
- Gong, a former Principal at Suno investor Menlo Ventures, deleted a post saying she had shifted most of her listening to Suno because Spotify kept giving her the same overplayed recommendations.
- The labels say the post bears directly on the fourth fair use factor, which asks how Suno affects the market for their recordings.
- 27 Oct
Tool News & Updates 27 OctElevenLabs Instant Soundtracks scores a video with music and sound effects from one upload
- ElevenLabs launched Instant Soundtracks on October 15, 2026, as an update to ElevenCreative.
- The model scores an uploaded video with original music, then finds moments that call for a sound effect and places generated effects at matching timestamps.
- Sound effects sit on their own layer in the Music Video Editor, so you can retime them or swap the music without starting over.
- 26 Oct
AI Music News 26 OctAustralian screen composers launch “Human Made” AI copyright campaign at the 2026 Screen Music Awards
- The Australian Guild of Screen Composers launches its Human Made campaign at the APRA AMCOS Screen Music Awards in Brisbane on Wednesday, October 28, 2026.
- The campaign asks for a licensing system that pays composers who choose to opt in to AI training, instead of letting AI train on their work by default.
- Composer Antony Partos, who leads it, says Sonar Music composers are being asked to recreate AI-generated tracks so productions can claim a human author.
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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
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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