17 Oct 2026 · 2,865 works · 700 news indexed
News · Business
Short original briefs on AI in culture, each linking out to the original reporting rather than reproducing it.
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.
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.
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.
Business13 Aug 2026
Spotify's paid AI tool for fan covers and remixes adds Kobalt's songwriters, its first publisher deal outside Universal, though opt-in details are unclear.
Business12 Aug 2026
BMG becomes the first major rightsholder after Warner to license Suno, settling past use and joining the build of the AI firm's next models, while Universal and Sony keep suing.
Business11 Aug 2026
An activist shareholder says Lionsgate's stock falls with each new AI video model and wants the studio to embrace the technology or find a buyer.
Business7 Aug 2026
Warner expects its AI licences with Suno, Stability, KLAY and Udio to add materially to streaming growth, while the Suno terms stay secret.
Business6 Aug 2026
Warner's CEO told investors its Suno, Udio, Stability and KLAY licences should start adding real subscription revenue from fiscal 2027.
Business6 Aug 2026
Distributor Symphonic adds ArtyShield's anti-training, AI-detection and voice-protection tools to its client dashboard, free to start.
Business4 Aug 2026
Merlin opts indie artists into Spotify's paid AI remix and cover tool, with revenue shared among those who take part.
Business29 Jul 2026
Fish Audio's large seed round comes as performers report unauthorised voice clones, and its openly published models sit beyond the reach of its own takedown process.
Business29 Jul 2026
The startup's Copy Score flags faces, logos and designs in AI output, and it wants insurers and courts to treat the score as proof.
Business28 Jul 2026
The BTS company is dissolving its loss-making voice-synthesis subsidiary weeks after calling it a growth business.
Business24 Jul 2026
GEMA is licensing about 180,000 cleared recordings as AI training data, paying contributing publishers and offering developers legal certainty.
Business22 Jul 2026
An SEC filing shows the director's AI film venture has sold about $11 million of a planned $15 million equity round.
Business20 Jul 2026
Udio's DRM deal supplies the stream encryption layer of the download-free service its label settlements require.
Business15 Jul 2026
BandLab's owner adds Aiode, whose instrument models are licensed from session musicians, as a standalone third platform beside BandLab and Cakewalk.
Business15 Jul 2026
An accounting job ad shows Suno preparing for audited accounts and a possible listing, a month after raising $400 million while still fighting labels in court.
Business14 Jul 2026
Singapore-based PixVerse raised $439 million in an extended Series C from backers including Alibaba, and claims 15 million monthly users.
Business7 Jul 2026
Suno adds YouTube's former label dealmaker and an Atlantic marketing executive as it readies a licensed model, though Warner is still its only major partner.
Business3 Jul 2026
The funding values Kuaishou's AI video tool Kling at $18 billion ahead of a planned Hong Kong listing.
Business2 Jul 2026
A $1 million program aims Gemini and Veo-based Flow at about 100,000 creators in five countries, alongside a wallet for cross-border pay.
Business26 Jun 2026
Google's first stake in a film studio funds joint AI tool research with DeepMind; A24 says it wants artists shaping the tools.
Business23 Jun 2026
The Chinese classic gets an AI-generated series from Utopai's Pai system, planned as the start of a global franchise.
