Legal & Policy24 Jun 2026
Jamendo sues Nvidia in the US over music used to train its audio models
Winamp-owned Jamendo says Nvidia trained Fugatto and Audio Flamingo on a research-only dataset and wants at least 17.8 million euros.
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Platforms23 Jun 2026
Amazon's Luna puts an AI Arnold Schwarzenegger on the bench in party game Courtroom Chaos
Schwarzenegger lent his voice and likeness to an AI judge in Amazon's free Prime party game, which an Amazon exec says needs an LLM.
Creators23 Jun 2026
ElevenLabs releases an AI Odyssey audiobook read by a clone of Michael Caine's voice
The free 13-hour audiobook uses Caine's licensed voice clone and 20 other AI voices, released ahead of Nolan's film of the epic.
Business23 Jun 2026
Utopai and Huace plan a fully AI-generated Journey to the West animated series
The Chinese classic gets an AI-generated series from Utopai's Pai system, planned as the start of a global franchise.
Industry22 Jun 2026
31 creator groups ask labels and publishers for consent and clear splits on AI deals
An EMMA-led open letter says artists are being opted into AI licensing by default and asks for an opt-out, disclosed revenue shares and advance notice.
Music22 Jun 2026
Grammy-winning engineers launch UAI, an AI music detector that issues signed certificates
RTM Audio's UAI flags a track as AI only when two separate checks agree, and backs each verdict with a signed certificate meant to hold up in disputes.
Music21 Jun 2026
SZA attacks AI music and accuses Diplo of helping train Suno on Black creators' work
The singer told musicians not to feed their work to AI, days after Suno's product chief defended its safeguards against imitation.
Music19 Jun 2026
Gareth Emery launches an AI-free label after finding AI models trained on his music
The trance producer says AI models were trained on his catalogue, and launches Emotional Intelligence Records for human-made music only.
Legal & Policy18 Jun 2026
Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously advances the NO FAKES Act
The committee cleared the bill giving people a federal right over AI replicas of their voice and likeness; a full Senate vote has not been scheduled.
Legal & Policy18 Jun 2026
Korean court jails the seller of deepfake videos of aespa's Karina and Winter
A Daegu appeals court gave the seller of deepfake videos of two aespa members two and a half years in prison, SM Entertainment says, as it keeps pursuing other cases.
Music17 Jun 2026
Warner Music China partners with virtual-singer maker Dream Maker
Dream Maker, which says it has built 3,000 motion-captured virtual singers, will put Warner artists on its avatars' releases.
Platforms16 Jun 2026
Kapwing study finds most TikToks shown to fresh accounts are AI slop
New accounts were fed mostly machine-made clips, nearly all of them under one kids' cartoon tag, suggesting TikTok's see-less-AI option is not enough.
Business16 Jun 2026
TransPerfect merges MPC into The Mill and pitches the combined VFX studio on AI workflows
A year after Technicolor's collapse, AI-focused owner TransPerfect folds MPC into The Mill and sells the result as craft plus AI-enabled scale.
Music16 Jun 2026
The Atlantic traces four large music datasets passing among AI developers
More than 21 million recordings in four research datasets are circulating among AI developers, some of them used by Google and Stability AI.
Music16 Jun 2026
Artist Included launches with an AI-assisted Boy George re-recording of Karma Chameleon
A new company is helping legacy acts cut AI-assisted, artist-owned re-recordings, starting with Boy George singing a new Karma Chameleon.
Creators15 Jun 2026
Beauty magazine illustrates a cosmetic-surgery story with AI women, prompts left in
Photographer Cassandra Klepac found AI prompts where photo credits should be, in a magazine story about how procedures affect real women.
Music15 Jun 2026
Bring Me The Horizon pull an AI-animated lyric video after fans object
The band removed the Black And Blue lyric video and matching promo reels after criticism of their AI-generated visuals.
Film15 Jun 2026
Urbanworld Film Festival opens its 30th edition to AI-generated films through a new UrbanworldAI programme
New York's BIPOC-focused festival will screen AI films in competition and teach filmmakers AI tools at its 30th edition, 14-18 October, working with The New School.
Music15 Jun 2026
Critic's census finds 10 of 45 groups debuting in Korea in 2026 are virtual
A Sidae census counts 10 of 45 debuting groups as virtual, while the Korea Times says none has yet matched PLAVE's success.
Music15 Jun 2026
Late rapper Eyedea's teenage lyrics released with an AI-cloned voice
Eyedea's mother and old collaborators used a voice model, guide vocals and hand-made beats to turn his teenage notebooks into a 14-track album.
Industry13 Jun 2026
DGA board backs a four-year studio deal that puts AI footage under the director's control
The Directors Guild's board unanimously backs a studio deal that treats AI footage like any other footage under the director's control, matching the writers' and actors' AI terms.
Legal & Policy13 Jun 2026
Lionel Richie applies to trademark his voice saying four famous lyrics
Richie's sound-mark filings for his spoken lyrics follow Taylor Swift and Matthew McConaughey in using trademark law against AI soundalikes.
Business11 Jun 2026
NMPA offers indie publishers template AI licences with Udio and Klay
The US publishers' body says its deals split AI income evenly between songs and recordings, unlike the streaming model.
Business11 Jun 2026
Lionsgate takes an equity stake in Runway and plans AI short series from its film library
The studio's expanded Runway deal adds an equity stake and a slate of AI-made short series drawn from its existing franchises.
