Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from UMG

"TikTok’s tactics are obvious: use its platform power to hurt vulnerable artists and try to intimidate us": Taylor Swift and The Beatles' label UMG goes to corporate war with "bully" TikTok, saying it will pull its entire catalogue

Universal Media Group accuses social media giant of - amongst other things - "sponsoring artist replacement by AI"

MusicRadar

Universal rips up TikTok licensing deal and explains why

Taylor Swift, Post Malone and Ariana Grande are among the artists whose voices could go missing

Universal Music Group Stops Licensing Music on TikTok

Universal Music Group announces it will no longer allow its music on TikTok due to expired licensing deal and concerns over compensation, AI, and online sa...

Top News

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Universal Music Group threatens to pull song catalog from TikTok in furious open letter

UMG said it will remove all songs from TikTok after it accused the social media platform of trying to ‘bully’ them into ‘a bad deal’ over music rights fees

The Guardian - AU

Taylor-made deals: how artists are following Swift’s rights example

The singer’s public fight over ownership of her work has lit the way for a new generation of musicians – especially young women – demanding more control over their output

The Guardian - UK

YouTube's new AI is cranking out music using voices from real singers

YouTube is playing mad scientist with the Dream Track feature, part of a lineup of music AI tools that can whip up tunes from mere text prompts and your questionable humming skills.

Android Central

Google's latest AI music tool creates tracks using famous singers' voice clones

Nine artists including T-Pain, Demi Lovato and Charlie Puth have granted Google permission to use their singing voices for the new tool, Dream Track.

WEKU

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Most artists won't like UMG and Deezer 'artist-centric' music-streaming model

No longer will every stream be worth the same.

Fortune

YouTube hatches plan to protect your favorite musicians from AI copycats

YouTube announced a brand new program that will work with music industry professionals to ensure your favorite artists are protected from AI models.

TechRadar

"Vocal deepfakes are here to stay": AI voice cloning is about to change pop music forever. Here's why

After the AI-generated 'fake Drake' track shook the music industry, the major labels are planning to legitimize AI vocal cloning with big-name artists. Where could it lead?

MusicRadar

Google, Universal Music reportedly team up to let artists get paid for AI-generated songs

Fans will be able to make songs that sound like their favorite artists using AI, but only if they pay royalty fees, under a new agreement.

Android Central

Your next work playlist could be AI-generated, thanks to Universal’s new deal

Universal Music Group has partnered with AI music company Endel to make sleep and meditation music.

TechRadar

AI could help musicians overcome writer's block, says Pet Shop Boys' Neil Tennant

Tennant offers an optimistic perspective on artificial intelligence in an interview with Radio Times

MusicRadar

Harry, sing Lana Del Rey! How AI is making pop fans’ fantasies come true

Longed-for duets between favourite pop singers are now being generated by AI. Fans are enthralled, but artists are worried: ‘I can’t help but think that I can be easily replaced’

The Guardian - UK

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Reason

A Fake Drake Song Shows the Potential for A.I.'s Future

Meanwhile, content creators and corporations want copyright regulations for artificial intelligence.

Bangkok Post

AI-generated song yanked from streaming services

MONTREAL - A new song created using AI software to imitate Canadian singers Drake and The Weeknd has been removed from streaming services after quickly racking up millions of listens and sparking debate over the new technology.

AFP

AI-generated song imitating Drake yanked from streaming services

Montreal (AFP) - A new song created using AI software to imitate Canadian singers Drake and The Weeknd has been removed from streaming services after quickly racking up millions of listens and sparking debate over the new technology.

MusicRadar

Heart On My Sleeve, the AI-generated track that sounds like it was recorded by Drake and The Weeknd, has been pulled from streaming services

Universal Music Group says that AI impersonations constitute a violation of copyright law

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

The Guardian - UK

AI song featuring fake Drake and Weeknd vocals pulled from streaming services

The song, called Heart on My Sleeve, has been removed from TikTok, Spotify and YouTube for ‘infringing content created with generative AI’

Daily Mirror

AI song covers mimicking artists' voices could do 'harm' to music industry

There's nothing like hearing your favourite singer cover your favourite song, but AI-generated music is causing debate as experts warn it could do harm to the industry

Fortune

How Ukraine's CEOs and businesses have survived a year of war

On the one-year anniversary of the Ukraine Russia war, Ukrainian business leaders explain how they've kept their companies and country afloat.

Tribune News Service

Minnesota indie bands fight for rights to '90s recordings: 'We get the runaround'

MINNEAPOLIS — In an era when musicians earn notoriously scant money from dominant digital streaming services such as Spotify, a new point of frustration is emerging for Minnesota rock acts — the unavailability of music that fans actually want to buy.

Tribune News Service

Dr. Dre reportedly selling music assets for more than $200 million

It’s the next episode for Dr. Dre’s music.

The Independent UK

Kanye West song ‘Power’ at centre of London High Court royalties dispute

A judge has outlined detail of the dispute between Declan Colgan Music Ltd and UMG Recordings, Inc in a ruling on a preliminary legal issue.

The Independent UK

Employee sparks debate after getting fired for refusing to work

Worker says ‘employees that will suffer under these discriminatory laws’

1 2 3 4

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Abortion

10,769 stories

Artificial Intelligence

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.