What Suno And Udio’s AI Licensing Deals With Music Majors Could Mean For Creators Rights
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NEW YORK, UNITED STATES – 2024/09/04: The American Federation of Musicians (AFM), a union … More representing over 70,000 musicians across the entertainment industry, rallies outside of Rockefeller Center as negotiations begin for a new contract with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP). After a year in which both actors and writers hit the picket lines, many fear another Hollywood strike may be on the horizon. (Photo by Michael Nigro/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images) Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images In the space of a year, the major record labels have shifted from legal crusaders to would-be business partners. When Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group and Sony Music filed copyright-infringement suits against AI up-starts Suno and Udio last summer, the industry assumed a bruising court fight was inevitable. Nine months later, the same companies are at the table hammering out AI music licensing deals that would let the startups keep training on label catalogues, provided the labels, and eventually their artists, get paid. These talks are not just about settling a lawsuit. They are about setting the rules, or perhaps abandoning them, for how copyrighted music is used in training AI, how future licensing structures might look, and who gets to be in the room when those decisions are made. For many artists, this is déjà vu, and not the good kind. From “Exploiters” to Partners The pivot is striking. Just months ago, the majors accused Suno and Udio of having trained their models on copyrighted sound recordings “at an almost unimaginable scale,” offering prompts that could generate near-identical copies of existing songs. The Recording Industry Association of America alleged “mass infringement” and sought sweeping legal remedies. Now, according to The Wall Street Journal, the labels are seeking licensing fees, compensation for past use, and minority equity…
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