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Fontaines D.C. say a VFX team used AI on "Marianne" without telling them, their label or management. Olivia Rodrigo's art team posted hand-drawn work to answer AI claims, and K.K. Downing defends an AI recreation of his younger self. Artists now carry the reputational risk of supply-chain choices they often never see.
AIvia Los Angeles Times
Reservoir Media has sued Suno over 1,050 songs and Anthropic over 853, asking for about $338 million in total. Its sharpest argument is that Suno's deals with Warner, BMG and Believe prove a market for training licences exists. That helps rights owners win; whether it pays songwriters is a separate question.
Artist rightsvia US District Court, Northern District of California (copy hosted by Music Business Worldwide)
ElevenLabs now generates an original score plus timed sound effects for an uploaded video, on separate editable layers and through an API. Its own licence keeps film, TV, radio and studio games for top-tier enterprise customers, so the first squeeze lands on the online, short-form work that pays many library composers.
AIvia ElevenLabs
Spotify says it has taken more than 50 million "slop and spam" tracks out of its recommendations in 2026, and counts removals from the service separately (more than 75 million). For producers, the useful question is no longer only "will my track be removed?" but "will anyone be shown it?"
Industryvia Spotify Newsroom
Daisy the Great say an app called ADHD Vision has spent months running ads with an AI-made track that keeps the melody of "The Record Player Song" and swaps in new lyrics. The law already covers a copied melody. What indie acts lack is a fast, cheap way to get an ad taken down.
Artist rightsvia Daisy the Great (Instagram)
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