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Suno admits it scraped audio from YouTube in a court filing.

We already kinda knew that thanks to a hack of the company’s data in July. And Suno admitted to training its models on publicly available music. But this is the first time it has explicitly copped to ripping audio from YouTube, saying in a court filing: > Suno admits that audio data was obtained from YouTube for use as training data using YT-DLP. [Link: Suno admits it obtained YouTube audio to train its AI | https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/suno-admits-it-obtained-youtube-audio-to-train-its-ai-but-challeng…

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Suno admits it scraped audio from YouTube in a court filing.
Sony, Warner Music sue Anthropic in AI copyright lawsuit
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Sony, Warner Music sue Anthropic in AI copyright lawsuit

The music publishing branches of Sony Music and Warner Music have sued Anthropic in California federal court for allegedly misusing their copyrighted song compositions to train ⁠its Claude AI models.

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Sony and Warner sue Anthropic over copyrighted song theft used for AI training
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Sony and Warner sue Anthropic over copyrighted song theft used for AI training

Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music have sued Anthropic, accusing the $2 trillion AI company of pirating copyrighted songs at massive scale to train Claude, its family of AI models. The lawsuit, filed Friday in California federal court, alleges Anthropic obtained lyrics and sheet music through torrent downloads and other pirate sources rather than

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Edmonton rapper finds his music was used to train AI generators
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Edmonton rapper finds his music was used to train AI generators

Cadence Weapon never gave artificial intelligence permission to learn from his music. But the Edmonton-raised rapper, born Rollie Pemberton, says he recently found 129 of his songs in datasets used to train AI music generators.

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HARMONY IN THE SCALE: PROTECTION OF MUSICAL WORKS IN THE DIGITAL AGE

The article is devoted to a comprehensive analysis of modern problems of protecting musical works in the context of the rapid development of digital technologies. The author considers the transformation of the music industry from analog media to online platforms, focusing on the scale of legal and illegal distribution of content, as well as the emergence of new threats in the form of streaming piracy, illegal copying, the use of AI, and digital remixing. The work presents the evolution of the copyright system —…

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HARMONY IN THE SCALE: PROTECTION OF MUSICAL WORKS IN THE DIGITAL AGE

‘I feel like I’m at war’: are we losing the battle against machine-made music?

This year, the battle for song of the summer has been eclipsed by a much more complicated – some would even say disturbing – debate. That’s because we find ourselves asking not “What’s the song of the summer?” but rather “Is the song of the summer even real?” Among the top contenders for the title is Fenix Flexin’s Rubberz, a single released in June that has ascended to No 58 on the Billboard Hot 100 and racked up more than 35m Spotify streams. It’s not the sort of fare Fenix usually cooks up. The artist is know…

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‘I feel like I’m at war’: are we losing the battle against machine-made music?