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HYBE's AI voice company Supertone is being dissolved after HYBE put nearly KRW 49 billion (about $35 million) into it. Three tools have moved to a new company and the rest shut on 31 August. Nothing public says what happens to the voice models built from artists.
AIvia DART, Financial Supervisory Service (Korea)
BandLab Technologies has bought Aiode, whose AI "musician models" are built with named session players who get a share of the tokens spent on their model. It is a better deal for players than scraped training, but neither company says how big that share is.
AIvia BandLab Technologies
FL Studio 2026 lets its Gopher assistant act inside a project, routing audio, setting levels and writing scripts, while coverage of the launch says it won't write melodies or chords, draw automation or pick presets. That line is the right one. The harder question is the request log Image-Line keeps, with no stated retention period.
Releasesvia Image-Line
Japan's biggest music rights society will only manage the human-made parts of a song, and songwriters must say which parts AI made when they register. It is also asking for Article 30-4, which lets AI firms train on works without permission, to give creators a choice. That puts Japan's songwriters further from a say over training than their counterparts in the EU or the UK.
Artist rightsvia Japan Copyright Office (Agency for Cultural Affairs)
A trademark suit filed in Connecticut on 10 June names Hallwood Media, Xania Monet creator Telisha Jones and a company called TJM Inc. It comes months after Monet's manager launched an AI-and-human label venture with Create Music Group. Both raise the same question about an AI act. If copyright barely reaches the voice, the name is the main thing anyone can own.
AIvia PacerMonitor (US District Court, District of Connecticut docket)
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