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- 28 Aug
AI Music News 28 AugAnthropic and Suno both fight Round Hill's move to tie their two lawsuits together
- Round Hill moved to relate, not consolidate, its separate August 17 lawsuits against Suno and Anthropic.
- Anthropic and Suno each filed oppositions, arguing the two cases share only a plaintiff and a filing date.
- Anthropic told the court the two suits cover different copyrights, sound recordings versus musical compositions only.
- 28 Aug
AI Music News 28 AugUniversal and Sony's amended Suno complaint puts stream ripping at the center of the case
- Universal, Capitol and Sony filed a 35-page First Amended Complaint against Suno on August 25, 2026 in Boston federal court.
- The complaint names YT-DL and YT-DLP as the tools it says Suno used to bypass YouTube's rolling cipher encryption.
- Paragraph 53 states the labels are not presently alleging Suno's outputs infringe unless discovery shows the outputs recapture parts of their recordings.
- 28 Aug
AI Music News 28 AugUS Copyright Office fees rise in November, and registering an album's sound recordings doubles to $130
- The US Copyright Office sent its final proposed fee schedule to Congress in July 2026, starting a 120-day review that ends around November 12.
- Group registration of an album's sound recordings goes from $65 to $130, while the same registration for the compositions goes from $65 to $85.
- The Office cut the musical works increase after public comments but left the sound recordings increase untouched.
- 28 Aug
Tool News & Updates 28 AugSeatGeek builds Ask SeatGeek into its search bar instead of bolting on a chatbot
- SeatGeek launched Ask SeatGeek, described by the company as a conversational AI search experience.
- The feature sits inside SeatGeek's existing search bar rather than in a separate chatbot panel.
- SeatGeek is pitching promoters on natural-language search surfacing events with more context than a price and a section number.
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- 28 Aug
Tool News & Updates 28 AugDreamtonics' Instrument X models breath pressure and bow friction instead of triggering samples
- Dreamtonics announced Instrument X, an orchestral plugin built on what the company calls Neural Acoustics Modelling.
- The plugin uses AI to control physical playing behaviour such as breath pressure and bow friction rather than switching between recorded samples.
- A 3D Sound-Field Control feature places instruments into mockups of spot, Decca Tree and ambient pair microphone setups.
- 28 Aug
Tool News & Updates 28 AugReason Free puts 15 Rack devices including the Europa synth into any DAW at no cost
- Reason Studios released Reason Free, a plugin carrying 15 Reason Rack devices for VST3, AU and AAX hosts.
- Reason Studios says it is free forever, with no trial period, no expiration date and no watermark.
- The set covers 4 instruments, 5 effects and 6 utilities, led by the Europa wavetable synth and its 600 plus patches.
- 28 Aug
Tool Roundup 28 AugBest AI Stem Splitter Tools in 2026 (Free and Paid): 7 Tested
- Moises gave me the cleanest browser stems at a subscription price, AudioShake beat it stem for stem, and LALAL.AI is the one to pay for when you need 6 stems in a single pass.
- SoundBoost is the best free stem splitter in the browser: 5 stems, a metronome and a practice studio with no signup, up to 750 MB per file.
- Ultimate Vocal Remover (UVR5) is the free quality ceiling, but it needs a desktop, a GPU and 15 minutes of setup.
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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.
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Frequently asked
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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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