Bombay High Court orders have shielded Arijit Singh and Asha Bhosle from AI voice clones, but the government committee drafting India's AI-copyright rules has not met since June, and its plan would let AI firms train on recordings without permission. Famous voices have a remedy; everyone else is waiting.
Artist rightsvia Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT)
Tod Machover's "already and not yet", a BSO commission conducted by Kent Nagano, puts a purpose-built "Live AI" system from the MIT Media Lab inside a full orchestra for three performances on 22-24 Oct 2026. It is the opposite of prompt-to-track AI, and it shows what a composer-directed, credited use of the technology can look like.
Releasesvia MIT News
All four run in a browser and have a free plan, but the free plans differ more than the marketing suggests. Audiotool says its free plan has no caps, BandLab's stops at 16 tracks, Soundtrap builds text and video chat into its live collaboration, and Veena adds an AI co-producer with a daily allowance and a five-project limit.
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Music publishers and Anthropic argued cross-motions for summary judgment over Claude and song lyrics on 21 Oct 2026, with no ruling yet. The publishers are testing "market dilution", the theory that AI-written lyrics compete with human songwriters, which one 2025 ruling dismissed and another said could win.
Artist rightsvia US District Court, N.D. Cal. (via CourtListener)
Spotify ended Q3 2026 with 306 million Premium subscribers and 788 million monthly users, and its co-CEO pitched it as a winner of the "agentic age". As listening moves into AI agents and conversations, artists have little view of how they get picked, and the the Universal and Warner deals reaching their two-year mark in early 2027 are the moment to ask.
Industryvia Spotify Technology S.A.
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