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South Korea’s KOMCA began accepting AI-assisted songs for registration and royalties when a human made a substantial contribution to the writing, composition, or arrangement. Applicants must disclose the AI-assisted parts, tools used, and their own creative role; prompt-only AI works remain ineligible. False filings can trigger royalty holds, repayment demands, or termination of the creator’s trust contract.
Spotify said Merlin has joined Universal Music Group in supporting its planned AI-powered covers and remixes product. The paid tool is intended to use music from participating artists, with opt-in participation, credit, and compensation built into the model, broadening the independent-label repertoire that could be available when the product launches.
New EU AI Act transparency obligations began applying on August 2. Providers of generative AI systems must use machine-readable markings so synthetic audio, image, video, and text can be detected, while deployers must disclose qualifying AI-generated or manipulated audio, images, and video deepfakes. For AI music services offered in the EU, this makes content marking and disclosure part of compliance rather than an optional product choice.
A Munich court ruled that Suno infringed copyright in GEMA’s case over the AI music generator, according to Music Business Worldwide, citing Reuters. The dispute concerns GEMA’s allegation that Suno used, stored and reproduced copyrighted music for training without a licence or payment to rightsholders. Because the decision is at first instance and can still be appealed, the legal outcome is not yet final.
IFPI has begun applying AI eligibility principles to charts it directly manages, including its MENA, Southeast Asia, South Africa and several Latin American rankings. The rules require lawful and authorized AI services, substantially human-made recordings, no chart manipulation, rights compliance and consumer disclosure. IFPI is also working with national groups on more than 20 additional chart programs, making this an operational rollout rather than a proposal alone.
Independent publishing groups IMPEL and IMPF are working with Warner Music Group-owned Sureel AI on a closed sandbox to test whether its attribution technology can support fair compensation for songwriters and publishers. Participating publishers will use selected repertoire only inside the defined trial, with no works provided for AI training. The project is an evaluation of attribution evidence, not a licensing agreement or commercial deployment.
