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- 01 Oct
AI Music News 01 OctIMPF and IMPEL publish 7 AI licensing principles, and the song must be valued at least equally with the recording
- IMPF and IMPEL published a joint framework of 7 principles for generative AI licensing on September 30, 2026.
- The one principle they call non-negotiable is that the song must be valued at least equally with the recording, absent other salient factors.
- In 2021, recording rights took 53% of UK streaming revenue and publishing rights took 15%, according to the UK Competition and Markets Authority.
- 01 Oct
AI Music News 01 OctKenjiro Tsuda's AI voice case: Tokyo court rules a voice is a publicity right, but rejects his TikTok takedown
- The Tokyo District Court ruled on September 30, 2026 that a person's voice is protected by the publicity right, the first ruling of its kind in Japan.
- The court dismissed voice actor Kenjiro Tsuda's demand that TikTok remove 188 AI-narrated videos, because the videos had already left TikTok's servers.
- Under the court's test, using a performer's voice without permission infringes when the voice draws customers and the use is solely aimed at exploiting that pull.
- 01 Oct
AI Music News 01 OctProsecutors want Michael Smith in prison for at least 46 months over his $8M AI streaming fraud
- Prosecutors asked Judge John G. Koeltl to sentence Michael Smith to at least 46 months in prison, in a letter dated September 28, 2026 and filed September 29.
- 46 months is the bottom of the 46 to 57 month guidelines range. Smith's lawyers want probation, and the probation office recommends 24 months.
- The letter says Smith's catalog drew 80.9 million YouTube Music family-plan streams in April 2023, against 9.3 million for Taylor Swift's entire catalog.
- 01 Oct
AI Music News 01 OctThomson Reuters v. ROSS: the first US appeals ruling on AI training rejects fair use, with the RIAA and NMPA on the winning side
- The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled on September 29, 2026 that ROSS Intelligence's AI training on Westlaw headnotes was not fair use.
- It is the first ruling by a federal appeals court on whether training AI on copyrighted works is fair use.
- The 32-page precedential opinion by Judge Tamika Montgomery-Reeves found 3 of the 4 fair use factors weighed against ROSS.
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- 01 Oct
Tool News & Updates 01 OctModulate raises $25M, and says its AI music detector hits 95% precision across 76 genres
- Modulate raised $25 million in a round led by Future Ventures, with Hyperplane and Lakestar joining, which takes its total funding to $60 million.
- Co-founder Carter Huffman is now CEO, and Mike Pappas, who was CEO when the AI music detector launched in June, is now chairman.
- Modulate says its AI music detector reached 95% precision across 76 genres in internal testing against music generators including Suno 5.5.
- 29 Sept
AI Music News 29 SeptORCA wants streaming services to charge a per-track upload fee to curb AI spam and fraud
- ORCA proposed on September 15, 2026 that streaming services charge a fee for every new track uploaded.
- Each streaming service would set and collect its own fee, and the money would go into the royalty pool.
- Creators who pass trust and safety checks for human-made music could pay a lower fee or none.
- 29 Sept
AI Music News 29 SeptTaylor Swift's 'Patient Zero' gets compared to a viral AI song about steel coils on trains
- Taylor Swift released "Patient Zero" on September 25, 2026, as the lead single from The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore.
- Spotify says it became its most-streamed song by a female artist in a single day in 2026.
- Listeners on Threads compared it to a viral AI-generated TikTok song about how trains carry steel coils.
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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.
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IMPF and IMPEL publish 7 AI licensing principles, and the song must be valued at least equally with the recording
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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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