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Australia bans largely AI-generated songs from official music charts
Australia has banned songs that are largely or wholly generated by AI from its official music charts, requiring eligible releases to be ‘substantially human made’.
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AI generated music faces a chart ban in Australia. Here's what the new rules say
Under the new rules, humans must have written the song and performed the lead vocal and primary instruments for a release to be eligible.
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Australia's Music Industry Bans AI-Generated Tracks From Official Charts
Tracks can be eligible only if “humans wrote the song and performed the lead vocal and the primary instruments,” among other requirements.
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‘I feel like I’m at war’: are we losing the battle against machine-made music?
This year, the battle for song of the summer has been eclipsed by a much more complicated – some would even say disturbing – debate. That’s because we find ourselves asking not “What’s the song of the summer?” but rather “Is the song of the summer even real?” Among the top contenders for the title is Fenix Flexin’s Rubberz, a single released in June that has ascended to No 58 on the Billboard Hot 100 and racked up more than 35m Spotify streams. It’s not the sort of fare Fenix usually cooks up. The artist is know…
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Universal Music Group Partners With Hook on AI-Powered Remix Tools
Hook users can remix, mash up and share their content using fully licensed and cleared songs from UMG, Downtown, Too Lost, Primary Wave and Avex.
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Alibaba Launches Happy Shrimp, The World's Latest AI Music Creator
Partnering with Chinese major TAIHE MUSIC GROUP, Alibaba's AI music generator Happy Shrimp uses artificial intelligence to make fully produced songs.
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Google Finally Lets You Remove Gemini's Visible AI Watermark
Google now lets Gemini users remove visible watermarks from AI images, videos and music while keeping SynthID and C2PA data.
Spotify will now label AI creators posing as human artists
Spotify, one of the largest streaming companies in the world, says it will soon start labeling AI profiles posing as human artists.
Suno Partners with BMG
Two of three major labels are suing AI-music giant Suno, but the company is partnering with the fourth-largest music company, BMG
Spotify to launch badge identifying AI music
Streaming giant Spotify said Tuesday it would launch a new "AI Persona" badge in mid-September clearly identifying content producers that are AI-generated and not real people. The move is the Swedish company's latest effort to be transparent about how the music on its platform was made, amid growing concern across the music industry over AI-generated content overwhelming streaming catalogues.
Spotify to flag AI music with new badge
Streaming giant Spotify said Tuesday it would launch a new “AI Persona” badge in mid-September clearly identifying content producers that are AI-generated and not real people.
Spotify to label AI-generated artist profiles with new AI Persona badge from September
Tech News News: Spotify is adding a new label for AI artists. Starting in mid-September, the music streaming platform will introduce an \"AI Persona\" badge for artist.
AI music company wants to press users' creations onto vinyl records
AI music company Suno plans to press users' generated tracks onto 12-inch records for about $45, moving into vinyl as copyright suits from Universal and Sony continue.
Suno made AI music a firehose. Now, facing lawsuits, it wants to watermark the flood
Suno will add audio watermarking, fingerprinting, and download limits to its AI music, a legitimacy play as copyright lawsuits and a German ruling pile up.
Suno Lost To GEMA: Why The Ruling Should Worry AI Music Companies
A German court ruled AI music company Suno infringed copyright by using works represented by GEMA without permission and downloaded songs by stream-ripping
