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Suno admits it kept the training recordings, and v6 learned from its users' creations
In its answer to Universal and Sony's second lawsuit, Suno admits it has not deleted all the recordings it trained on, and repeats that v6 learned from "creations and preference signals" from its community. That makes Suno's own users part of the training pipeline the labels call laundering, under a licence they can't take back.
23 Oct 2026Artist rightsvia US District Court for the District of Massachusetts (via Music Business Worldwide)
How distributors decide your song is "AI", and what to do when they get it wrong
A labels' court filing shows DistroKid tests uploads with an undisclosed third-party "prediction model" and has made statements about false positives, none of it published for artists. Here is what is known about distributor AI detection, what you control, and how to protect a release that gets misjudged.
23 Oct 2026Industryvia US District Court, Southern District of New York (via Music Business Worldwide)
US copyright fees can rise from 11 November: what independent musicians should file first
The US Copyright Office can bring in its new fee schedule from 11 November 2026. Registering an album of sound recordings doubles from $65 to $130. If you self-release music in the US, you have under three weeks to register your backlog at current prices, and singles-first artists stand to lose the most.
23 Oct 2026Artist rightsvia U.S. Copyright Office
Arooj Aftab's two-payment rule: pay artists when AI trains on them, and every time it uses what it learned
The Grammy-winning singer says musicians are owed twice, once for training and again for every new track an AI makes from what it learned. That goes further than the union statement she was resharing, and further than CISAC's president, but one collective licence in Sweden already pays at both points.
23 Oct 2026AIvia United Musicians and Allied Workers
UMG licenses TYGER, an app that reshapes songs around your gameplay
Universal Music Group is the first major music company to license TYGER, a music app for gamers that adapts licensed recordings to live gameplay. It isn't a song generator, and it could be a new income line. But nobody has said whether artists will be paid like sync or like a stream, or whether they get a say in how their songs are reshaped.
22 Oct 2026Industryvia TYGER

Suno admits it kept the training recordings, and v6 learned from its users' creations

How distributors decide your song is "AI", and what to do when they get it wrong

US copyright fees can rise from 11 November: what independent musicians should file first

Arooj Aftab's two-payment rule: pay artists when AI trains on them, and every time it uses what it learned

UMG licenses TYGER, an app that reshapes songs around your gameplay

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