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Jim Freeman, ex-Amazon Prime Video VP, joins Ticketmaster as CTO to lead ‘AI-first’ push - Music Business Worldwide
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Japan Actors Union announces guidelines addressing unauthorised use of generative AI to replicate voice performances
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Hollywood AI-listers: is the technology ready to rival flesh-and-blood film stars?
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Sony and Universal ask court to force Suno investor Lightspeed to testify about the ‘legal risk of training data’ - Music Business Worldwide
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NVIDIA Advances Agentic Security for Media, From European Public Service Broadcasting to Global Content Production
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Kylie Minogue songs already used to train AI as tech firms ‘strong-arm’ Australian government, music body warns
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VisionQuest review – Marvel’s latest TV show feels like it could have been made by a computer
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South Park takes on looksmaxxing, aura-farming and influencer nonsense with grotesque glee
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New Show, Same LichtensteinPaywalled
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Mark Wahlberg on using AI in film 'the right way' and being open to an AI clone carrying on his legacy | TechCrunch
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Cupertino Recap: Valley GuysPaywalled
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Klara and the Sun review – Taika Waititi’s manic pixie dream robot sci-fi is a sentimental mess
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Balloon Girl review – tech tycoon swirls with tragic teen parachutist in a crackling, time-travelling climate romp
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A$AP Rocky Has a Very Diplomatic Stance on AI in Music: ‘Who Am I to Say What’s Standard’
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Unsupervised AI agent reportedly deletes TV show’s entire edit weeks before release, erasing months of work — TV show can't air, AI agent was given access to the production server and wiped the finished season
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Elon Musk's attempts to rebrand AI slop are hilarious, but they betray a deeper truth
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Figma announces new features to define how agents work on its platform | TechCrunch
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Taylor Swift expands voice trademark filings to the UK, EU, and Australia amid AI deepfake crackdown
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YouTube Music starts labeling AI-generated songs, using partner disclosures and its own detection tools - Music Business Worldwide
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Stan Douglas: ‘The things AI steals are always better than the things it makes’Paywalled
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Zimbabwean author Simbarashe Kundizeza denies using AI to write Caine Prize-winning story
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Fontaines DC: Dopamine Chamber — a plodding release promises no rewardPaywalled
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How AI is Used by Netflix at Its VFX Eyeline Studios, Revealed by VP Mohsen Mousavi at View Conference
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Deezer to let users block AI-generated music from search results - Music Business Worldwide
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This cool interactive visual argues that generative art began in a cave
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Denmark’s new digital replica law should go into effect in early 2027, says Danish culture minister
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Sony Music Has Requested the Removal of Over 260,000 AI Deepfake Songs From Digital Platforms
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IMPF and IMPEL publish AI licensing principles, insisting songs and recordings must be valued equally
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Japanese court says voice is protected by publicity rights; US appeals court says AI training is not fair use
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Olivia Rodrigo Clarifies AI Stance Following ‘Invasive’ Tech Investor Dating Rumors: ‘Absolutely No’
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Danny Boyle Shares Why He Used AI for Maggie Thatcher in ‘Ink’ – Without Asking Her Estate and His Love for ‘Obsession’ and ‘Backrooms’
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Prime Video Takes Global on Turkish AI-Generated Movie ‘Çukur:Vartolu,’ a Spin-Off From the Hit Series Known Internationally as ‘The Pit’ (EXCLUSIVE)
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Nicolas Cage Refused to Sign an AI Waiver From Amazon
AI-pilled bosses and clients are turning designers into ‘pixel pushers’
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DistroKid has been quietly taking down songs in response to UMG lawsuit
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Elon Musk says Grok Bot will use Suno’s AI music models, alongside Anthropic’s Claude and Midjourney - Music Business Worldwide
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With a new CFO, three licensing deals, and $775M+ raised, what’s stopping $5.4B-valued Suno from an IPO? - Music Business Worldwide
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Thatcherism via the Walkman: Stuart Hall’s British cultural studies preserved online
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ARIA boss tells Australian lawmakers OpenAI and Anthropic are ‘asking Government for a free ride’ on copyright - Music Business Worldwide
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Man behind $8M AI song and bot streaming fraud is sentenced to 18 months in prison - Music Business Worldwide
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Google picks Base for Music for its Gemini Startup Forum – as $1.7M-backed French company says it uses AI to predict music marketing ROI - Music Business Worldwide
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Suno faces investigation in Italy over terms of service - Music Business Worldwide
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A US appeals court has rejected a ‘fair use’ defense over AI training. What does it mean for the labels’ fight with Suno? - Music Business Worldwide
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Sony Music has now asked platforms to remove more than 260,000 AI deepfakes imitating artists like Harry Styles, Adele, and Michael Jackson - Music Business Worldwide
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An $8M streaming fraud, two plays a day. Here’s the pro-rata math behind the bot scheme – and the rule change that would have killed it. - Music Business Worldwide
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Suno is ‘far beyond’ 2m subscribers and $300m in revenue, says Mikey Shulman – who argues it’s ‘good’ that AI music has no ‘firm rules of the road’ yet - Music Business Worldwide
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ElevenLabs valuation doubles to $22B – four times that of AI music rival Suno - Music Business Worldwide
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Anthropic pushes for opt-out model for Australian content as ABC warns of ‘cannibalisation’ of news
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Tokyo court rules that a person’s voice can be protected by publicity rights – a first for Japan - Music Business Worldwide
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Indie publishers set out seven principles for AI licensing: ‘The song must be properly valued.’ - Music Business Worldwide
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Absolute Label Services opens AI-powered Anthology business management ‘Music OS’ to indie sector: ‘Infrastructure is the next logical thing to democratize’ - Music Business Worldwide
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AI tool that copied actor’s ‘lustrous’ voice violated his rights, Tokyo court rules
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Audio AI firm Modulate, which runs an AI music detection tool, raises $25M - Music Business Worldwide
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Universal Music Group appoints Òscar Celma, who helped lead development of Spotify’s AI DJ, as SVP of Applied AI and Machine Learning - Music Business Worldwide
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Musixmatch: ‘Lyrics are becoming the LLM of the music industry’ - Music Business Worldwide
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Qobuz starts tagging AI-generated music in its app – and says 60% of streams on AI tracks are fraudulent - Music Business Worldwide
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A Wuhan court just made AI production costs a legal factor in copyright infringement cases
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Antares launches AutoTune Advanced, a pitch-correction plugin built to leave a singer’s vibrato alone - Music Business Worldwide
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LANDR expands AI fraud detection built with machine learning lab Mila – and says artificial streams flagged by Spotify for music it distributes fell 95% between Q1 2025 and Q2 2026 - Music Business Worldwide
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Over 50% of a major streaming service’s tracks come from DistroKid – and other revelations from UMG’s lawsuit - Music Business Worldwide
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Japanese used bookstores see 5x sales surge as books are being bought by the ton, one 50-ton order sent to the US for AI scanning and destruction — multitude of suspicious bulk buys thought to end up in foreign AI scan and shred facilities
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Sony Music Group becomes first music company to join AI policy coalition ARIAM – alongside Disney, the BBC, and The New York Times - Music Business Worldwide
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YouTube adds AI tools to Creator Studio with script coaching, smart thumbnails, and Gemini editing
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Khosla Ventures-backed AI music company GRAI acquires social music platform Hangout - Music Business Worldwide
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Suno confirms V6 model was trained on ‘creations’ from users, as it blasts latest Sony and Universal lawsuit - Music Business Worldwide
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