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Open-weights

Open weights vs closed apps: a producer's guide to AI music model licences in 2026
Stable Audio 3, Lyria 3, Suno v6, ElevenLabs' music products and Udio all describe themselves as responsible about rights, but their terms differ sharply on who owns the output, whether you can release it, and whether your own creations become training data. We read each vendor's terms. Here is what they actually say.
23 Oct 2026Artist rights
Stable Audio 3.0: open-weight music models you can run on your own machine, trained on stock and Creative Commons audio
Stability AI's Stable Audio 3.0 family puts music models that make up to 6:20 of audio onto ordinary laptops, with open weights for Small and Medium. The "fully licensed" training set is stock library and Creative Commons audio, not label catalogue, and the free licence ends at $1M in annual revenue.
20 May 2026AIvia Stability AI

Open weights vs closed apps: a producer's guide to AI music model licences in 2026