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- 30 Oct
AI Music News 30 OctBTS and Psy songs are on the 60,202-track list in UMG and Sony's second Suno lawsuit
- Psy's "Gangnam Style" (2012) and "Gentleman" (2013) are on the list of 60,202 recordings Universal Music Group and Sony Music say Suno used without permission, Korea JoongAng Daily reported on October 28, 2026.
- Two BTS collaborations are on the list too: "Bad Decisions" (2022) with Benny Blanco and Snoop Dogg, and "Waste It On Me" (2018) with Steve Aoki.
- will.i.am's "Gettin' Dumb" (2013), which features the girl group 2NE1, is also on the list.
- 30 Oct
AI Music News 30 OctGoogle's Gemini will help stage the 2026 MAMA Awards, and YouTube will stream the show worldwide
- Google announced a partnership with the 2026 MAMA Awards on October 30, 2026.
- The K-pop awards show will livestream on YouTube in Korea and other regions, subject to local broadcasting rights.
- Gemini will be used for pre-show promo planning, the main ceremony's opening video and key highlight stages.
- 30 Oct
AI Music News 30 OctLucian Grainge says streaming services should stop paying AI tracks the same as real artists
- Universal Music Group CEO Sir Lucian Grainge said on UMG's Q3 2026 earnings call on October 29 that pro-rata streaming payouts treat AI slop "the same as the greatest songs in the world."
- Grainge said unethically generated AI tracks should never be paid on the same basis as music with real demand, and asked why a music service would even host them.
- He said the structure of UMG's agreements with streaming services "has to change," as part of a new transformation phase that runs to the end of 2028.
- 30 Oct
AI Music News 30 OctWhat are the Manchester Principles? The UK music industry's 3 demands for AI
- The Manchester Principles came out of the Creative Industries AI Summit at Beyond The Music in MediaCity, Salford, on October 9, 2026.
- They set 5 general principles, from fair value to respect for creators.
- A working group added 3 AI objectives: licensing and consent, provenance and tracking, and attribution and equity.
- 30 Oct
AI Music News 30 OctMusicians' union AFM joins SAG-AFTRA and WGA in asking a judge to reject OpenAI's fair use argument
- The American Federation of Musicians, SAG-AFTRA, WGA West and WGA East filed a proposed amicus brief against OpenAI on October 29, 2026.
- The 4 unions represent more than 250,000 workers, including over 80,000 AFM musicians.
- They ask Judge Sidney H. Stein to reject OpenAI's fair use defenses and treat AI training as an ordinary, case-by-case copyright question.
- 30 Oct
AI Music News 30 OctSpotify plans to launch its AI covers and remixes tool in early 2027 at $4 to $5 a month, FT reports
- Spotify plans to launch its AI covers and remixes tool in the first quarter of 2027, the Financial Times reported on October 30, 2026.
- Spotify is weighing a price of $4 to $5 a month for the tool on top of a Premium subscription, and neither the price nor the timing is final.
- Royalties from fan remixes would go to the artists behind the original songs, and remix plays would count toward the original tracks on Spotify's charts.
- 30 Oct
AI Music News 30 OctSuno wants Apple to testify on whether Apple Music could survive without UMG and Sony
- Suno filed a 24-page opposition on October 27, 2026, asking a federal court in San Jose to deny Apple's motion to quash Suno's deposition subpoena.
- Suno wants an Apple witness to testify on 4 topics, including Apple's current licensing talks with UMG and Sony and whether Apple Music could run without their catalogs.
- Suno says the answers go to its fair use defense and to its copyright misuse defense, which claims the labels use their "must have" catalogs to win anti-AI deal terms.
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I'm Christopher Wieduwilt. Founder of The AI Musicpreneur.
Christopher Wieduwilt
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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.
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.
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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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