Music2 Sep 2026
Halifax music venue Gus' Pub stops accepting AI-generated show posters
The Halifax pub now swaps AI-made gig posters for a plain template, a stand that local artists say has already brought back design work.
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Legal & Policy2 Sep 2026
Canada's SOCAN sues Suno over near-identical copies of songs like 'Both Sides Now'
The collecting society targets Suno's outputs and their streaming in Canada, citing 150 tracks it calls virtually identical to its repertoire and seeking a society-wide injunction.
Film2 Sep 2026
Zee-backed Bullet Microdrama shows trailer for The Dwarka Project, billed as India's first AI-led anime feature
The 100-minute film is made entirely on Bullet's own AI platform, a test of whether AI can carry a feature-length story.
Film2 Sep 2026
AI faces and voices hid more than 30 police investigators in BBC Studios' The Murder Detective
StudioNeural gave more than 30 officers AI-made faces and voices in the Lyra McKee murder documentary, delivering 60,000 frames during the edit.
Legal & Policy2 Sep 2026
India's Copyright Office finds a DABUS artwork original but refuses to name the AI as its author
The registrar rejected Stephen Thaler's application because he listed DABUS as author, while accepting that an AI-made image can be original.
Legal & Policy2 Sep 2026
Regional Mexican label Gerencia sues Suno and data broker Bright Data
Gerencia says Suno trained on its catalogue scraped from YouTube and Deezer with Bright Data's tools, and seeks roughly $166 million from the two companies.
Legal & Policy1 Sep 2026
Jason Isbell and David Lowery sue Suno over musicians' identities, not copyright
A proposed class action says typing an artist's name into Suno yields a song, description and image built on that person, and that the platform's name filters are easily beaten.
Film1 Sep 2026
Guadagnino's OpenAI drama Artificial gets a New York Film Festival premiere after Amazon walked away
Amazon dropped the Sam Altman film months after its OpenAI deal; Neon picked it up and it opens the conversation at Lincoln Center on 5 October.
Legal & Policy1 Sep 2026
Udio answers Sony Music's second lawsuit, admitting YouTube stream-ripping and pleading fair use
Udio concedes it ripped YouTube audio for training but says the process is fair use, in its answer to Sony's larger second suit.
Film31 Aug 2026
Gal Gadot says her Bitcoin contract took six months to keep AI out of her performance
Gadot says AI on Liman's Bitcoin was limited to sets and lighting, and her lawyers spent months making sure it never touched her acting.
Platforms31 Aug 2026
AI tracks hijack the streaming profiles of jazz musicians, living and dead
Fake AI singles appeared on the Spotify, YouTube and Amazon Music pages of Sonny Criss, Jean Carne and other jazz artists before Spotify removed them.
Platforms31 Aug 2026
Instagram will label AI-generated profiles and limit the reach of those that hide it
Meta is replacing Instagram's AI creator tag with a clearer AI-generated profile label and will throttle AI persona accounts that don't use it.
Business31 Aug 2026
Sunny Hostin licenses her likeness to AI studio Fountain 0 to adapt her novels
The View co-host will develop AI films from her books, with her synthetic image in them and a revenue share. Fountain 0 is also inviting influencers to license their likenesses.
Industry31 Aug 2026
Cinema St. Louis to exclude generative-AI films from its festivals from 2027
After a local AI-made short sparked debate, the St. Louis film festival organiser will require disclosure and bar generative AI from creative content in 2027 submissions.
Legal & Policy31 Aug 2026
Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell sue Anthropic and name its founders
Publishers led by Sony and Warner Chappell accuse Anthropic of pirating their songs to train Claude, and name two founders personally.
Film29 Aug 2026
Cheap AI video is pushing actors and livestreamers out of work in China
Nearly all of China's booming short dramas are now AI-generated at a tenth of the cost, and some performers say they must train AI copies before being let go.
Industry28 Aug 2026
More than 80 UK performers ask the government for a law against voice cloning
Actors, singers and narrators including Hugh Bonneville and Sandi Thom have written to the prime minister seeking protection against AI copying their voices.
Creators28 Aug 2026
Manic Miner reboot studio admits its announcement trailer used AI
BBG Entertainment says AI sped up the Gamescom trailer for its Manic Miner remake after retro fans spotted generated art and voice.
Legal & Policy27 Aug 2026
Judge lets Universal and Sony accuse Suno of ripping YouTube, but blocks 61,000 extra songs
The court let the majors add a YouTube circumvention claim against Suno but refused to add 61,026 more songs, to keep the fair-use fight on track.
Industry27 Aug 2026
Australia bars fully AI-generated tracks from the ARIA charts
From the chart dated 31 August, songs must be substantially human-made to count, with AI-assisted work still eligible and each case judged on human involvement, lawful tools and manipulation risk.
Film27 Aug 2026
Arcana Labs options 'The Furry Wild West' as an AI-assisted animated feature
The Echo Hunter studio will animate Oren Lavie's Western comedy with human-designed shots and AI in-betweening, reportedly for under $10 million.
Film27 Aug 2026
Cocomelon studio Moonbug sets rules for its animators to try generative AI
Internal guidelines let Moonbug staff use AI for backgrounds, textures and ideas, but keep characters, plots and lyrics human-made.
Legal & Policy26 Aug 2026
Judge lets country singer Tony Justice's copyright case against Suno go ahead
A Massachusetts federal judge threw out only a Tennessee consumer-protection claim, keeping the indie musician's copyright and DMCA claims against Suno.
Industry26 Aug 2026
Luminate builds AI-music flags into the data behind Billboard's charts
Billboard's data supplier will tag AI songs and artists in CONNECT later this year, though it has not said whether the flags will decide chart eligibility.
