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 05:30:00 GMT https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/10/suno-admits-kept-training-recordings-v6-user-creations Suno admits it kept the training recordings, and v6 learned from its users' creations https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/10/suno-admits-kept-training-recordings-v6-user-creations In its answer to Universal and Sony's second lawsuit, Suno admits it has not deleted all the recordings it trained on, and repeats that v6 learned from "creations and preference signals" from its community. That makes Suno's own users part of the training pipeline the labels call laundering, under a licence they can't take back. Fri, 23 Oct 2026 05:30:00 GMT We are the music makers aiai-musicsunocopyrighttraining-data https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/10/copyright-office-ai-training-report-still-pre-publication The Copyright Office's AI training report is still a draft 17 months on, and its critics are using that https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/10/copyright-office-ai-training-report-still-pre-publication The US Copyright Office's report on generative AI training, released as a "pre-publication version" on 9 May 2025, has never been finalised. Its view that some training is fair use and some isn't, and that market dilution is real harm, is the closest thing music has to an official US position. Litigants cite it, the Justice Department attacks it, and the two big 2025 rulings didn't cite it at all. Fri, 16 Oct 2026 04:30:00 GMT We are the music makers ailegalcopyrightfair-usetraining-dataartist-rights https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/09/doj-fair-use-nyt-music-lawyers The DOJ says AI training is fair use. Music's best arguments were never about training https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/09/doj-fair-use-nyt-music-lawyers The US Justice Department has told the court in the New York Times' case against OpenAI that training AI models on copyrighted text is fair use, and it goes out of its way to reject the "market dilution" theory the music industry leans on. It leaves outputs, data sourcing and identity open, and that is where artists' claims are strongest. Wed, 02 Sep 2026 05:30:00 GMT We are the music makers artist-rightslegalcopyrightfair-useai-musictraining-data