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- 03 Jul
AI Music News 03 JulJudge denies Sony Music's bid to add 30,442 recordings to its Udio lawsuit
- Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein denied Sony Music's motion to add 30,442 recordings to its copyright lawsuit against Udio on July 2, 2026.
- The ruling keeps the case at the 333 works Sony originally put in suit, sharply limiting Udio's potential statutory-damages exposure.
- Hellerstein said adding more than 30,000 works near the close of discovery would "materially alter the scope of the case."
- 03 Jul
AI Music News 03 JulWeird Al Yankovic turned down a lucrative AI ad: 'I can't be the poster boy for AI'
- Weird Al Yankovic said he pulled out of a paid ad for business productivity software after learning the product was AI, telling Syracuse.com he had been offered "a nice pile of money."
- He backed out about a week before the shoot, saying "I can't be the poster boy for AI, forget it."
- Yankovic has said plainly he is "not a fan of AI," despite the "Weird AI" jokes that follow him online.
- 03 Jul
Tool News & Updates 03 JulMadverse v2.0 lets independent artists keep 100% of their royalties
- Madverse relaunched as v2.0 on July 1, 2026, pitching one place for independent artists and labels to release, manage, promote, and monetise their music.
- Both subscription tiers now pay out 100% of royalties, up from 85% on Creator and 95% on Professional.
- The Creator plan costs Rs299 per month (Rs99 for the first month); the Professional plan is Rs3,999 per year.
- 03 Jul
Tool News & Updates 03 JulSuno explores a developer API to embed AI music generation in other apps
- Suno Chief Product Officer Jack Brody said on July 1, 2026 that the company is exploring a developer API, starting with a curated group of partners.
- Suno has no official public API today; developers have only built unofficial wrappers around its platform.
- The API would let outside apps send text prompts to Suno's models and receive finished audio, embedding generation into their own products.
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- 01 Jul
AI Music News 01 JulAustralia's music industry calls AI training the largest IP theft in its history
- Australia's leading music and creative groups issued a joint open letter demanding the government protect creators from mass-scale AI training.
- The coalition called the unauthorized use of Australian songs to train AI the largest theft of intellectual property in the industry's history.
- The trigger was a report that millions of Australian and New Zealand works sat inside four AI training datasets used without consent or payment.
- 01 Jul
Tool News & Updates 01 JulViberate launches an official MCP server, opening its music data to ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini
- Viberate launched an official MCP server so any compatible AI assistant can query its data in plain language.
- The database covers 11 million artists, 100 million songs, 19 million playlists, 160,000 labels, and 7,000 festivals.
- A free tier gives basic access, and a paid plan adds more than 20 tools with a 20% founding discount for the first three months.
- 30 Jun
AI Music News 30 JunNotes.fm launches Credits.fm, a free open database of 150M+ song credits for the AI era
- Notes.fm launched Credits.fm on June 30, 2026, a free open database indexing more than 150 million song codes and credits.
- Credits.fm is searchable across ISRC.fm, ISWC.fm, and IPI.fm, and ships an open API plus MCP so tools like Claude, Cursor, and ChatGPT can pull verified credits.
- Notes.fm says it has identified more than $10 million in unclaimed royalties in the past year, for artists including James Blake, Zach Bryan, and Mt. Joy.
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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
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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.
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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