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- 21 Jul
AI Music News 21 JulAI music passes 50% of Deezer's daily uploads, and Deezer starts deleting it
- Fully AI-generated music passed 50% of all new tracks uploaded to Deezer for the first time in June 2026, peaking at close to 90,000 tracks a day.
- The flood is accelerating, up from 75,000 daily AI tracks and a 44% share when Deezer last reported the numbers in April 2026.
- Deezer will now delete AI tracks used to inflate streams fraudulently, plus AI tracks nobody has streamed in six months or more.
- 21 Jul
AI Music News 21 JulIndonesia drafts Southeast Asia's first AI copyright law, with a ban on style imitation
- Indonesia is drafting a copyright bill making it the first country in Southeast Asia to write AI directly into its copyright framework.
- The draft bans AI imitation of a creator's distinct style, a protection copyright law does not offer in most of the world.
- AI-assisted works would get copyright protection only with human contribution, while fully AI-generated works get none.
- 21 Jul
AI Music News 21 JulPatreon stops asking and starts blocking AI training crawlers with Cloudflare
- Patreon announced on July 17, 2026, it now blocks AI training crawlers across the platform using Cloudflare's AI Crawl Control technology.
- During testing, individual AI crawlers' weekly access attempts dropped from thousands to zero, proof the bots had been ignoring Patreon's robots.txt requests.
- Bots indexing pages to send users back to Patreon stay allowed, only crawlers harvesting content for AI training get blocked.
- 21 Jul
AI Music News 21 JulSOCAN partners with Musical AI to build opt-in AI attribution for 200,000 music creators
- SOCAN named Musical AI an approved technology partner for AI attribution on July 21, 2026
- The deal rests on 2 principles: AI use of members' music stays opt-in, and creators get credit and payment when their work shapes an AI output
- Musical AI's technology traces how much each source influenced an AI-generated track, assessed separately for compositions and sound recordings
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- 21 Jul
AI Music News 21 JulSony Music files a second Udio lawsuit, putting 30,117 blocked recordings back in play
- Sony Music filed a second copyright lawsuit against Udio on July 20, 2026, in the Southern District of New York, asserting 30,117 sound recordings.
- The recordings are the same works a judge barred Sony from adding to its original 2024 case weeks earlier.
- Sony identified the works by audio fingerprinting Udio's training data in discovery and calls them "only a small portion" of the matches it found.
- 21 Jul
AI Music News 21 JulTikTok tests AI likeness detection with US creators, ID scan required
- TikTok is testing an opt-in likeness detection tool that scans the platform for AI-generated content using a creator's face without consent.
- The test is limited to a small group of US creators and was first spotted by social media consultant Matt Navarra in July 2026.
- Creators must verify their identity through Jumio with a real-time selfie and a government ID before the scanning activates.
- 17 Jul
AI Music News 17 JulLorde publicly torches Spotify's AI 'About the Song' feature
- Lorde called out Spotify's AI About the Song feature in an Instagram Story on July 16, 2026, after it published incorrect context about one of her songs
- She asked Spotify to at least let artists opt out, saying AI-generated meaning at the source limits free interpretation
- Spotify confirmed the inaccurate text about Lorde's song has been removed, but the feature stays live in beta
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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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