We are the music makers https://wearethemusicmakers.co/latest Music tech and AI in music: the news that matters, what we think about it, and a directory of the tools. en-us Fri, 23 Oct 2026 06:30:00 GMT https://wearethemusicmakers.co/opinion/open-weights-vs-closed-apps-ai-music-model-licences Open weights vs closed apps: a producer's guide to AI music model licences in 2026 https://wearethemusicmakers.co/opinion/open-weights-vs-closed-apps-ai-music-model-licences 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. Fri, 23 Oct 2026 06:30:00 GMT We are the music makers artist-rightsai-musiclicensingopen-weights https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/05/stable-audio-3-open-weights-licensed-data-local Stable Audio 3.0: open-weight music models you can run on your own machine, trained on stock and Creative Commons audio https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/05/stable-audio-3-open-weights-licensed-data-local 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. Wed, 20 May 2026 04:30:00 GMT We are the music makers ai-musicreleasesstability-aiopen-weightslicensing