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- 04 Sept
AI Music News 04 SeptLyricFind and Musixmatch shipped rival land-grab products, then told the court they will not mediate
- LyricFind and Musixmatch told a US federal court on September 3, 2026 that they have failed to agree even on starting mediation.
- LyricFind says it is willing to mediate. Musixmatch and its investor TPG say they are not open to it "due to the gap between the parties' settlement positions".
- The day before, Musixmatch launched Pro for Labels and LyricFind launched a free Verified Artist Program.
- 04 Sept
AI Music News 04 SeptSuno pulled the Mary J. Blige ad and says an unauthorized representative signed the deal
- Suno terminated the Mary J. Blige advertising campaign on September 3, 2026, five days after the clip started circulating.
- Suno says it signed the deal with a person who presented themselves as Blige's official representative and was not.
- Blige never approved the ad, and a representative told Variety she had no further comment.
- 04 Sept
Tool News & Updates 04 SeptAudacity 4 is out, and it ships with no AI features at all
- Audacity 4 launched on September 3, 2026, rebuilt on Qt and running natively on macOS, Windows and Linux.
- Clips can now overlap, and the release adds clip grouping, ripple editing and non-destructive editing.
- The core app contains no AI features. Audacity's stem separation and transcription come from a separate OpenVINO plugin pack.
- 04 Sept
Tool News & Updates 04 SeptSongscription is signing publishing deals before anyone sues it, starting with Spirit Music Group
- Songscription has signed licensing deals with independent publishers, and the Spirit Music Group deal is the first one made public.
- CEO Andrew Carlins says publishers "seem more keen to license us than some other AI services".
- Carlins puts the size of the opportunity at "well over 90% of songs written are untranscribed today".
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- 04 Sept
Tool News & Updates 04 SeptSuno teases 'New models. Coming soon.' on Instagram, one day after its September 3 download caps kicked in
- Suno posted a short video on Instagram on September 4, 2026 that reads only "New models. Coming soon." with no date, name or feature list.
- The teaser landed one day after Suno's download caps and new Terms of Service took effect on September 3.
- Suno confirmed on August 10 that the new generation is built with the music industry and that every prior model, from V2 to v5.5, gets retired at launch.
- 04 Sept
Tool News & Updates 04 SeptWhat Are Stems in Music? The AI Stem Separation Cheatsheet (2026)
- A stem is a mixed group of related tracks printed as one audio file, so a drum stem holds the whole kit and the 4 standard stems sum back to the finished mix.
- Exported stems null against the mix. AI-separated stems are a model's reconstruction, and only iZotope RX, SpectraLayers and UVR's MDX-Net mode pass a null test.
- The best public model scores 12.33 dB SDR on vocals and 18.64 dB on the instrumental, but about 9 dB on the other stem, where guitar and piano live (MVSEP Multisong leaderboard, July 2026).
- 03 Sept
AI Music News 03 SeptTrump's Justice Department told a court AI training is fair use, and music's cases run on the same question
- The Department of Justice filed a 20-page statement of interest on September 1, 2026 in the New York Times case against OpenAI and Microsoft.
- It tells the court that training a large language model on copyrighted text does not violate copyright law.
- It is the first time the US government has intervened in any of the AI copyright cases now stacked up in American courts.
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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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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.
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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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