Tag: AI Music
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AI Music Licensing: The Statutory Track
The AI music statutory licensing track has become the track the music industry has been quietly building, the track the regulator has been quietly considering, the track the working musician has been quietly watching.
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AI Music and the Publishing Deals
The AI music publishing deals in 2026 sit as the deals the major labels and publishers have made with the AI music vendors, with the deals reshaping the music licensing market, with the deals setting the precedent for the next wave of AI generated content. The deals cover the training rights, the output rights, the…
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AI Music Licensing Options Explained
A field guide to the AI music licensing options in 2026, with the four models that exist, what each one costs, and how to pick the right one for the use case.
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The AI Music Industry Lawsuit Wave Explained
The AI music lawsuit wave that started in 2024 has been building through 2025 and into 2026. The labels, the publishers, the individual musicians, the rightsholders, all suing the model makers, the platform users, the streaming services, the wave that will reshape the industry.
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AI Music in the Live Performance World
Live performance is the part of the music industry the AI has not touched. The reasons are interesting. The reasons will not last.
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AI Music and the Royalties Mess
When an AI model trains on a catalogue and produces a track that resembles the originals, who gets paid? The legal answer is not settled. The mechanical answer is. Here is what is actually happening in 2026.
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AI Music in 2026: What Suno and Udio Actually Built
Two companies, Suno and Udio, are at the center of every argument about AI music. Both have generated more tracks in the last 18 months than the entire recorded history of rock, jazz, and hip-hop combined.
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The State of AI Music in 2026
AI music in 2026 is not the catastrophe the labels warned about, and it is not the bonanza the startups promised either. It is a working tool that does a working job for a specific kind of user, while the legal questions stack up around it.
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Voice Cloning and the Death of Voice Verification
Voice verification sat as the security control the bank, the call center, the enterprise helpdesk relied on for years. The five second voice sample, the my voice is my password pitch, the security control that worked until the voice cloning tools became good enough to defeat it.
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AI Music Hit a Wall, and the Wall Was the Listening
AI music hit a wall in late 2025 and the wall was not the one the headlines were about. The headline wall was the lawsuits, the licensing disputes. The actual wall was the listening. People stopped listening.