22 Oct 2026 · 3,484 works · 748 news indexed
News
Short original briefs on AI in culture, each linking out to the original reporting rather than reproducing it.
Legal & Policy26 Aug 2026
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
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.
Business25 Aug 2026
Universal, Sony and Warner joined Stability AI's Series B, a year after licensing deals with the company, and Coatue's Thomas Laffont takes a board seat.
Models25 Aug 2026
ElevenMusic's new Composer lets users regenerate or restyle one part of a song while keeping the rest intact.
Legal & Policy24 Aug 2026
A proposed class action says Amazon scraped Twitch creators' video for AI training before telling or paying them, and before the platform offered an opt-out.
Business24 Aug 2026
WildBrain pays about $11 million in cash plus shares for a maker of child-safe character chatbots, with up to $56 million more tied to targets.
Models24 Aug 2026
Alibaba's new video model doubles clip length and accepts documents and web pages as input, aimed at uses from film production to creator content.
Music22 Aug 2026
Midler says the AI singer IngaRose's chart hit was built from uncredited human voices; Tyrese Gibson defends the song in her comments.
Business21 Aug 2026
Music IP Holdings, the Universal and Liquidax joint venture, signed Udio and GRAI as first licensees of a two-dozen-patent portfolio it says covers the whole AI music pipeline.
Platforms21 Aug 2026
Apple Music will label AI-made tracks later this year, relying on labels and distributors to declare them, with no word on enforcement.
Music20 Aug 2026
Singers and a label owner say AI-altered copies of their songs are being renamed and sold online, and want Nepal's 2002 copyright law updated for voice cloning.
Film20 Aug 2026
A short film sets a real 1971 radio interview with a 22-year-old Billy Joel to AI-made visuals; Joel was not involved.
Legal & Policy19 Aug 2026
A Roblox studio says AI-made 'Italian brainrot' characters belong to nobody; the firm repping their creator says a human made them. A US court may hear the test.
Business19 Aug 2026
The deal lets Hook users remix participating UMG artists, with per-feature controls for rightsholders, in another sign the majors are splitting on AI.
Film19 Aug 2026
Heaven and Paradise Lost, both still casting, are booked onto about 1,500 US screens in 2027 through AI production company Ex Machina Studios.
Music18 Aug 2026
SubmitHub's detector marked 23.2% of July releases as fully AI-made and 15.3% as edited AI audio, though many flagged artists denied using it.
Film18 Aug 2026
The late actor's children have reopened his account as a trusted source of real clips, to counter AI videos of his voice and face.
Models18 Aug 2026
Alibaba's new prompt-to-song model reaches public beta with Taihe Music as a co-creation partner, putting a tech giant up against Suno and Udio.
Legal & Policy18 Aug 2026
The independent publisher filed twin copyright suits in California, named scraping firm Bright Data alongside Suno, and hired the Blurred Lines trial lawyer to take both to a jury.
Film18 Aug 2026
Kian84, Jang Do-youn and Lee Yu-bi date AI partners on camera in an SBS series streaming on Netflix that asks whether people can fall for AI.
Business17 Aug 2026
After a cease-and-desist over Seedance 2.0 clips of stars like Tom Cruise, the MPA and ByteDance signed an MOU on copyright guardrails across ByteDance's AI tools.
Legal & Policy15 Aug 2026
Two Suno plaintiffs withdrew their suits without explanation; one can never be refiled, and Suno's other cases continue.
Platforms14 Aug 2026
A Reddit user claims to have taken 12 million works from Cara, the app founded so artists could share without feeding AI models.
Film14 Aug 2026
Viewers spotted Lobo images resembling Jason Momoa with an AI look on the director's laptop; Warner pulled the video without comment.
