For seven years, Michael Smith ran one of the most audacious fraud schemes the music industry has ever seen. Using AI-generated songs and an army of […]
$280 million. That’s what Live Nation agreed to pay across 40 states in antitrust penalties. And somehow, the consensus is that it was too soft. The […]
A $1.5 billion handshake is about to redraw the entire music publishing map. If Primary Wave closes its acquisition of Kobalt Music Group, the indie sector […]
5.1 trillion streams. The music streaming wrapped 2025 season has arrived, and the numbers are staggering. A 10% jump from last year confirms what many suspected: […]
The Suno AI WMG settlement just rewrote the rules of AI music generation overnight. What started as a $500 million copyright infringement lawsuit filed by UMG, […]
Eighteen months ago, Universal Music Group sued Udio into the ground. Yesterday, they announced a joint AI music platform. The Udio UMG AI music deal might […]
Fifty-six. That’s the total number of music copyright lawsuits filed against AI companies as of October 2025. Six months ago, that number was under thirty. The […]
Here’s a number that should make every musician pause: 1,000 streams on Tidal earns you $12.84. The same 1,000 streams on Spotify? Just $3.18. That’s a […]
$150,000 per infringed work. That is the price tag the world’s three largest record labels placed on every song allegedly scraped by AI music generators Suno […]
Eleven months into the most consequential copyright battle the music industry has seen in decades, the U.S. Copyright Office just dropped a 108-page bomb. Its Part […]