The torrent of AI-generated content is giving digital services some challenges to solve, especially as rightsholders and public figures get hotter on infringement of likeness rights.
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AI’s new USB port: what the MCP standard means for the music industry
One way to think about MCP is as AI’s equivalent of the USB ports on devices, and we think it could have a big impact on the music industry.
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Laylo’s UGC Agent gathers clips from fans’ Instagram stories
Last month we wrote about fan-data firm Laylo’s new AI Ticket Sales Agent, which automated the process of reconnecting with fans who’d RSVP’d or clicked on a link.
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Lorde speaks out against Spotify’s ‘About the Song’ feature
Clearly relishing her freedom as an independent artist, Lorde has been speaking out about technology issues lately: witness her well-timed takedown of Meta’s AI glasses at a recent festival – which was sponsored by its smart-specs partner Ray-Ban..
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Suno adds iMessage… but a hack may have revealed its training data
AI-music firm Suno’s big announcement yesterday was a new integration with Apple’s iMessage app, but it was rather undercut by an investigative report claiming to answer the longstanding question of what it trained its model on.
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Genotone unveils ‘Proof of Human’ initiative for AI music
Last week, a group of music-industry bodies published proposals for a two-badge system to label music that’s wholly AI-generated or AI-assisted. Humans disclosing this information are key to the system… but how will *they* be verified?
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Acquisitions Watch: BandLab Technologies snaps up Aoide and Too Lost buys Gyro·Group
The two latest music-industry acquisitions cover different areas: one an extension of AI-assisted music-making, and the other an expansion into Australasia and Asia-Pacific.
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Australian government backs creative industries in AI-training battles
“No company should use Australian books, music, art or news to build or train AI without the artist’s control…”
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Spotify gets more conversational with its user interfaceÂ
Given everything going on around AI right now, it’s hardly a neck-sticking-out prediction to say that conversation is going to be the next big leap for the way people use music services. Spotify’s latest announcement offers more evidence.
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Mogul links with Claude and ChatGPT through its new MCP server
We last wrote about royalty-management startup Mogul in February when it raised a $5m funding round. Now it has become the latest company to launch a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server to play nicely with AI assistants.
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Björn Ulvaeus on AI: ‘Tracing the output was always the wrong question’
Cisac president and ABBA co-founder Björn Ulvaeus has given his latest – and most detailed – speech about AI and creators, at the United Nations’ AI for Good Summit in Geneva. One […]
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Ivors Academy presses Irish government to protect songwriters
The debates about AI and musicians rumble on in parliaments around the world – including Ireland this week. Tomorrow (14 July) a motion filed by politician Aengus Ó Snodaigh will be debated in the country’s Dáil (assembly).
