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The International Confederation of Music Publishers says AI companies are lobbying Australia to loosen copyright rules for model training while lawmakers revisit the issue. ICMP also says datasets and model outputs implicate songs by artists including Kylie Minogue and Nick Cave, although inclusion in a dataset does not prove a work was used for training. A parliamentary committee is due to report by November 30.
Spotify and Believe signed a licensing agreement for an upcoming paid tool that will let participating Believe and TuneCore artists opt in to AI-powered fan remixes and covers. Streams will pay royalties to artists and rightsholders, and each remix will link back to the original track. The deal expands Spotify's licensed remix program to independent music, but the tool has not launched and participation remains voluntary.
DistroKid confirmed to The Verge that it removed a small number of recordings in response to claims made by Universal Music Group, which sued the distributor in September. The company disputes UMG's allegations and says it is trying to reduce disruption, while artists report that some non-AI works were removed without notice. The episode shows how AI-related copyright enforcement can affect independent releases before the lawsuit is resolved.
Italy’s Competition Authority has opened an investigation into Suno’s terms of service, saying they may unfairly shift consumer rights through unilateral price and service changes, account termination powers, U.S. arbitration, and broad content licensing. The review gives AI-music users a concrete regulatory test of platform terms, including the reported waiver of moral rights, but it is an investigation rather than a final finding.
The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit upheld Thomson Reuters' win against Ross Intelligence, leaving in place a ruling that copying Westlaw headnotes to train a competing legal-search system was not fair use. RIAA and NMPA backed Thomson Reuters, but the decision concerns non-generative legal research rather than AI music, so it does not decide the Suno or Udio cases.
Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment filed a second copyright lawsuit against Suno, alleging that it copied 60,202 sound recordings without licenses to build models behind its music-generation service. The complaint also targets the newer v6 models, arguing they inherit value from earlier allegedly infringing systems. The labels seek damages and an injunction; the allegations have not been decided by a court.
