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In India your song is protected the moment you make it, so registration is optional. What it gives you is evidence a court will accept. One song can be three separate works (the music, the lyrics and the recording), each needing its own application, fee and consent letters from your co-writers.
Artist rightsvia IP India (Office of the Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks)
Twitch lets you perform cover songs live, but its rules stop at the live stream. The saved broadcast and clips are where takedowns come from. Here is what the music guidelines actually say, how strikes work, what Soundtrack's shutdown tells us, and a step-by-step setup for performance streams.
Industryvia Twitch
France's Senate has passed a one-article bill that would presume an AI provider used a protected work whenever there is a plausible sign that it did, leaving the provider to prove otherwise. SACEM, which has opted its repertoire out of AI mining since October 2023, wants it passed. It has been stuck in the National Assembly since June, and the reason it matters is that an opt-out is hard to enforce if you can't prove your music was used.
Artist rightsvia Sénat
AI tracks are flooding the cheap end of production music, but a music supervisor can't clear or insure a cue whose authorship and training data nobody can document. Here is how sync money works, and why well-documented human catalogues are gaining value.
Industryvia Deezer Newsroom
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
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