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- 23 Oct
AI Music News 23 OctGrammy winner Arooj Aftab says musicians should be paid when AI trains on their music
- Grammy winner Arooj Aftab called for musicians to be paid when AI uses their work, in 2 Instagram stories on October 20, 2026.
- She wrote that artists should be paid because AI has already trained on their music, which she called 'usage'.
- She added that artists should be paid every time AI uses what it learned to make new music, which she called 'derivative work'.
- 23 Oct
AI Music News 23 OctReservoir sues Suno over 1,050 songs and Anthropic over 853 lyrics, from Joni Mitchell to Madonna
- Reservoir filed 2 federal lawsuits on October 21, 2026 in the Northern District of California, one against Suno and one against Anthropic.
- The Suno complaint lists 1,050 compositions, including Joni Mitchell's “Both Sides Now” and Johnny Cash's “Ring of Fire”, and claims up to $186.4 million.
- The Anthropic complaint says Claude was trained on the lyrics of 853 Reservoir compositions and claims up to $151.4 million.
- 23 Oct
AI Music News 23 OctSuno admits it hasn't deleted all the recordings it trained on, in its answer to UMG and Sony's v6 lawsuit
- Suno filed a 44-page answer on October 20, 2026 to Universal Music Group and Sony Music's second lawsuit, the one aimed at its v6 models.
- Suno admits it "has not deleted all of the sound recordings it has used to train its AI models", and the line appears 6 times in the answer.
- Suno says keeping the recordings matches the labels' own pre-suit demand that it retain "data sets used to train" its models, but it never says it stopped using them.
- 23 Oct
AI Music News 23 OctSuno wants a court to force the MLC to hand over streaming data from 8 platforms going back to 2021
- Suno asked a Nashville federal court on October 15, 2026 to force the Mechanical Licensing Collective (MLC) to comply with its subpoena within 14 days of an order.
- The August 31 subpoena, as quoted by Digital Music News, asks for monthly performance data for all labels from Amazon, Apple, Deezer, Pandora, SoundCloud, Spotify, Tidal and YouTube, from 2021 to today.
- Suno says the MLC's lawyers confirmed the MLC held the data and quoted about $5,000 plus hosting costs, which Suno offered to pay, before reversing course on July 27.
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- 23 Oct
AI Music News 23 OctUMG is the first major label to license TYGER, which uses AI to make songs react to gameplay
- Universal Music Group signed a licensing deal with TYGER on October 22, 2026, and both companies say UMG is the first major music company to license the service.
- Select UMG recordings and songs are coming to TYGER's paid on-demand subscription, and some UMG recordings will also play on the free, ad-supported tier.
- TYGER's AI changes how a licensed song plays during a match, and CEO Nick Venti says the company does not make AI-generated music.
- 22 Oct
AI Music News 22 OctConcord v. Anthropic: publishers cite almost 120,000 AI lyric prompts as Judge Lee weighs fair use
- US District Judge Eumi K. Lee heard the cross-motions for summary judgment in Concord v. Anthropic in San Jose on October 21, 2026, and has not ruled.
- Anthropic argues that training Claude on the lyrics to the publishers' 499 songs is transformative fair use.
- The publishers argue the copying is undisputed and that fair use fails for both Claude's training and its output.
- 22 Oct
AI Music News 22 OctGrian Chatten says nobody told Fontaines D.C. about AI in the 'Marianne' video, and the band will ban it by contract
- Grian Chatten told the Los Angeles Times on October 21, 2026 that Fontaines D.C. weren't told AI was used in the 'Marianne' video, and neither were their label or management.
- The video's YouTube credits first listed 3 people as 'AI artists', and the same entry now reads 'VFX artists'.
- Chatten said over 110 people worked on the video, and someone on the VFX team used AI somewhere in the workflow.
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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
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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