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- 17 Jun
AI Music News 17 JunBoy George's AI 'Karma Chameleon', explained: how it was made and who owns it
- Boy George and Culture Club re-recorded "Karma Chameleon" using AI trained on the original 1983 recordings, timed to his 65th birthday.
- The track is an AI-assisted re-record, not a synthetic voice clone. George sang a new vocal that AI reshaped to match his younger voice.
- George never owned the master of "Karma Chameleon," so a roughly $4 million Virgin sync deal paid the rights holders, not him.
- 17 Jun
Tool News & Updates 17 JunWarner Chappell licenses its production catalog to AI brand-music startup EightSix
- EightSix named Warner Chappell Production Music as the first major music partner for its Brand Studio platform.
- Warner Chappell Production Music brings more than 135,000 tracks across 120-plus catalogs into the platform.
- The catalog sits inside Brand Studio as a premium module brands can activate without a separate licensing step.
- 17 Jun
Tutorial 17 JunHow to separate stems in Suno: Auto Split, Split from Mix, Advanced Split
- Suno's stem update adds three modes: Auto Split (classic 12 stems), Split from Mix (one instrument plus a backing track), and Advanced Split (regenerated custom stems).
- Advanced Split rebuilds each stem from scratch with Suno's latest model, so the output is cleaner and free of the bleed you get from frequency filtering.
- Advanced Split lets you target close to 100 instruments, down to a single violin, 808, or didgeridoo.
- 17 Jun
Tool News & Updates 17 JunPush Push used AudioShake to lift a 35-year-old vocal out of a finished mix
- Push Push reunited after more than 30 years to rework "Euphoric Plunder in Bliss," a track from their 1992 debut album.
- The original recording had every instrument and vocal locked inside a single finished mix, with no separate stems to work from.
- AudioShake separated the original vocal and guitar straight from the mixed master, with no session files.
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- 17 Jun
Music Intelligence 17 JunAn AI-built Dolby Atmos encoder decodes in open software, but certified hardware rejects it by design
- A developer published a Rust tool that re-encodes Dolby Atmos audio into Dolby Digital Plus, and says the AI model Claude Fable 5 helped build it.
- Open-source players like ffmpeg and Cavern decode the output as valid spatial audio with correct height positions.
- Dolby-certified hardware refuses to play it and falls back to standard surround sound.
- 16 Jun
AI Music News 16 JunThe Atlantic publishes 4 databases of songs used to train AI music models
- The Atlantic published 4 searchable databases of music used to train AI models, with 12 million tracks in one and 9 million in another.
- The data names hit songs from Taylor Swift, Bad Bunny, and many other major artists.
- Suno has generated tracks that closely resemble Michael Jackson's "Thriller" and Ed Sheeran's "Shape of You."
- 16 Jun
AI Music News 16 JunBoy George re-records 'Karma Chameleon' with AI to reclaim his biggest hit
- Boy George and Culture Club re-recorded "Karma Chameleon" with AI to recreate his original 1983 vocal, timed to his 65th birthday.
- The release launches Artist Included, co-founded by manager Paul Kemsley and attorney Jeremy Rosen, with Boy George as creative director.
- George says the motive is control, after a roughly $4 million Virgin sync deal paid the master owners and not him.
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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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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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