Warner Music Music (WMG) announced on Wednesday that it’s acquiring AI attribution startup Sureel AI. Sureel’s patented technology creates “AI DNA” for songs and breaks them down into component parts to trace how AI models use those elements. Through the acquisition, WMG aims to better track when its artists’ and songwriters’ work is used in AI-generated content or for training AI models.
Source: Warner Music acquires AI attribution startup Sureel AI
Google says in a new court filing that YouTube’s terms of service grant a “broad license” for artificial intelligence models to be trained on music uploaded directly to the platform. This argument came in Google’s Monday (June 8) motion to dismiss copyright infringement litigation filed earlier this year by a group of independent artists, songwriters and producers.
Source: YouTube Terms of Service Allow AI Music Training, Google Says in Copyright Lawsuit
On Tuesday, the Music Venue Trust (MVT) and Audoo announced a new partnership aimed at uncovering how music played in grassroots music venues is represented within performance royalty distribution administered by PRS for Music and related licensing systems. As part of the collaboration, Audoo’s proprietary “Audio Meter” technology will be deployed across “a statistically significant selection” of 12 grassroots music venues across the UK to capture exactly what music is being played in real time.
Source: MVT and Audoo Challenge PRS Proxies With Real-Time Tracking In Over 120 UK Venues
ASCAP has filed copyright infringement lawsuits against four US radio groups that it says have broadcast its members’ music without a valid license. The performing rights organization said on Tuesday (June 9) that the four groups operate a total of 15 radio stations. The defendants are Haugo Broadcasting Inc. in South Dakota, Spoon River Media, LLC in Indiana, Taylor Communications in Mississippi, and Barry Lunderville Radio in New Hampshire.
Source: ASCAP sues four radio groups for ‘prolonged unauthorized use of its members’ music
The European Commission on Wednesday published the Code of Practice on marking and labelling artificial intelligence (AI)-generated content, setting out voluntary measures to help providers and deployers comply with transparency requirements under the EU AI Act. The transparency obligations will become applicable on Aug. 2, requiring clear labelling of AI-generated or AI-manipulated content in specific cases, according to a statement.
Source: EU publishes code of practice for labelling AI-generated content
Trade body Digital Content Next (DCN), which represents many major US publishers, has sent a cease and desist letter via its lawyer to the web archive creator. They called on Common Crawl to immediately stop “scraping, retaining, or sharing copyrighted, paywalled, subscriber-only, or otherwise protected content from DCN member companies in its datasets.” They also requested that publisher content already in the Common Crawl datasets is removed.
Source: US publishers tell Common Crawl to stop scraping and delete archive
On this day in June 1965, Sony Corporation made a bold leap into consumer electronics by introducing one of the world’s first home video tape recorders to the U.S. market. The device, known as the CV-2000 Videocorder, carried a suggested retail price of $995 and promised to revolutionize how families captured and replayed moving images in their living rooms. It marked a significant milestone as the first fully transistorized video tape recorder designed with home users in mind.
Source: 61 Years Ago Today: Sony Brings Video Recording into American Homes
The American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada (AFM), which has 70,000 members, said Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group “received significant compensation” from the AI companies for past copyright violations and licensed “substantial” portions of their music catalogs to them, but haven’t shared that with the musicians.
Source: Musicians shortchanged by AI deals with labels, lawsuit alleges
A coalition of 227 rights organizations worldwide has called on France‘s National Assembly to pass a bill that would establish a legal presumption that AI companies have used copyrighted works to train their systems. The Darcos bill would insert a presumption into the French Intellectual Property Code that AI providers have used copyrighted works, unless they can prove otherwise.
Source: 220+ rights orgs worldwide urge France’s National Assembly to adopt AI training bill
Prediction market apps like Kalshi and Polymarket have quickly become huge businesses – and to the layperson, they look and feel like gambling apps. Now, you can stake your prediction money on anything– including events in the music industry. In 2026, there’s a huge and growing market that has turned the data of the music industry into a febrile space of predictions. It’s a space where money goes in, and then more money might come back out if you are lucky.
Source: Music prediction is a $400m market in 2026 so far – on one platform