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  • Jason Isbell's class action against Suno is about identity, not copyright

    Jason Isbell, David Lowery, Guy Forsyth and Eduardo Calle have sued Suno under state publicity laws and Illinois' biometric privacy law, not copyright. They say Suno's model knows musicians by name and voice. If the theory holds, it gives artists who don't own their masters a claim of their own, though as drafted it favours the famous.

    Artist rightsvia US District Court for the District of Massachusetts (via Music Business Worldwide)

  • The EU AI Act's training rules are now enforceable. What musicians can actually do with them

    From 2 August 2026 the Commission's AI Office can fine general-purpose AI providers that skip their copyright policy or their public summary of training content. The rules give musicians a reference point and a complaint route, but not a list of their songs or a payment. Here is what you can check, what you can reserve, and where the gaps are.

    Artist rightsvia European Commission

  • Brazil's music societies told big tech to license now. The AI bill is still waiting

    ECAD, Brazil's central collecting office, and the music societies that run it joined broadcasters and publishers in a letter to OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Meta, Apple, Amazon and others. It says AI use of their members' work needs authorisation and payment under the 1998 copyright law, and invites talks to avoid litigation. Brazil's AI bill, which would write that into statute, has stalled in the Chamber of Deputies until after the elections.

    AIvia Ecad

  • Grimes' 50/50 voice offer, three years on: 168 GrimesAI releases. Did open licensing work?

    In 2023 Grimes let anyone release songs with an AI copy of her voice in exchange for half the master royalties. About three years on, the GrimesAI profile lists 168 releases, the Elf.Tech site has gone quiet and Grimes now says humans still have to tell the story. Here is what worked, what didn't, and what other artists can borrow.

    AIvia TuneCore Help Center

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