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- 02 Sept
AI Music News 02 SeptGerencia 360 says Suno copied its catalog to win the Spanish-language AI market
- Gerencia 360 Music filed against Suno and Bright Data on August 31, 2026 in the Northern District of California, as case 3:26-cv-09248.
- The complaint alleges Suno copied its Spanish-language works to "quickly capture a significant share of the Spanish language AI user market."
- It puts 444 registered works at $66.6 million against Suno, and asks for the same sum from Bright Data on a contributory infringement count.
- 02 Sept
AI Music News 02 SeptJason Isbell and David Lowery sue Suno over identity, and the complaint has no copyright claim
- Jason Isbell, David Lowery, Guy Forsyth and Eduardo Calle filed a proposed class action against Suno in Boston federal court on August 31, 2026.
- The 84-page complaint spreads its claims across 17 counts and contains no copyright claim at all.
- It relies on the Illinois Right of Publicity Act, California's common-law publicity right, and the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act.
- 02 Sept
AI Music News 02 SeptMary J. Blige appears in a Suno ad, and the multimillion-dollar deal claim traces to one X post
- A Suno ad featuring Mary J. Blige began circulating on August 30, 2026 and ran as a promoted spot on TikTok.
- The clip is staged as candid studio footage, with Blige hearing an AI-generated track and calling it "pretty dope."
- Claims that Blige signed a multimillion-dollar deal with Suno trace back to a single X post, and no outlet has confirmed them.
- 02 Sept
Tool News & Updates 02 SeptSoundplate buys AI mastering company Stemmer and rebuilt its engine as a serverless API
- Soundplate has acquired Stemmer, an AI music mastering company founded in 2020, in a deal reported on September 1, 2026.
- Stemmer had more than 20 clients before the acquisition, and Soundplate was already one of them.
- Soundplate says it extracted Stemmer's core algorithms and built a new proprietary serverless mastering API from the ground up.
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- 02 Sept
Music Intelligence 02 Sept11 famous artists using AI in music, and what each one does with it
- The 11 artists on this list hold more than 150 billion Spotify streams combined, counted across their solo profiles on September 2, 2026.
- Timbaland has been Suno's strategic advisor since October 2024 and runs song ideas through it for inspiration, without releasing a generation as a finished track.
- Dr. Dre confirmed in August 2026 that he uses AI as a tool to react to work he has already made, and compared the backlash to the drum machine panic.
- 01 Sept
AI Music News 01 SeptSpam farms hijacked jazz legends' streaming profiles to release AI tracks
- AI-generated tracks were uploaded to the Spotify, Amazon Music and YouTube profiles of jazz musicians including William "Sonny" Criss, Red Nichols and Jimmie Noone.
- Criss died in 1977 and Noone died in 1944, yet both had new singles appear on their profiles this year.
- The uploads were credited to a publisher named "Ami bacuk" and, on the Criss tracks, a composer named "Zainul Irpan."
- 01 Sept
AI Music News 01 SeptUdio admits it pulled training data with yt-dlp, then argues that's fair use
- Udio filed its formal answer to Sony Music's second copyright lawsuit, which asserted 30,117 sound recordings in July 2026.
- The answer acknowledges Udio acquired some of its training data using yt-dlp, an open-source tool that downloads audio from YouTube.
- Udio already admitted scraping YouTube audio in April 2026, answering Sony's amended complaint in the original case. The new filing names the tool.
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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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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.
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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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