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SoundExchange collects US royalties when recordings play on non-interactive digital services such as SiriusXM, Pandora and iHeartRadio. Registration is free and open to artists outside the US, but unclaimed money expires after three years, and self-releasing artists who register only as performers leave the larger share behind.
Industryvia Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School
The Mechanical Licensing Collective plans to start paying out unmatched and unclaimed US streaming mechanicals by market share in 2027, beginning with January 2021 usage. Money that nobody has claimed by then goes to whoever already earns the most. Here is how to register, match and claim before it does.
Industryvia The Mechanical Licensing Collective
A Munich court has largely ruled for GEMA against Suno over six songs, finding they were memorised inside Suno's v3.5 and v4 models and that this is copying. It also applied US fair use to Suno's US training and rejected it. The ruling isn't final, and its limits matter as much as the headline.
Artist rightsvia Landgericht München I
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)
AI covers built from North Carolina folk singer Murphy Campbell's YouTube performances appeared on streaming services under her name, then her own videos of public-domain songs were hit with copyright claims. The Musicians' Union now uses her case to argue for UK personality rights. Her story suggests a right on paper is only the first of three things artists need.
Artist rightsvia Musicians' Union
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