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Sony and Warner Sued Anthropic and Named Amodei and Mann Personally
Thirty-five music publishers filed in California on 28 August. The complaint states no damages figure, and its exhibit of works is called non-exhaustive.
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The Same Day Suno Lost, Adobe Won — on the Words "Upon Information and Belief"
Judge Corley dismissed the Nemotron half of an author's copyright claim as merely possible rather than plausible. The Books3 half was not challenged and stands.
Aug 21, 2026
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Suno Lost 3 Dismissal Counts, But Won One Already Abandoned
Judge Saylor held that a copyright plaintiff need not produce the infringing output at the pleading stage — the point on which AI music cases have been turning.
Aug 21, 2026
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One Injected Passage Affected 32 Models, Then Vanished By Training's End
A seed-controlled counterfactual finds a large geometric footprint with almost no functional consequence — and a caution for anyone auditing models by weight deltas.
Aug 20, 2026
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Suno Will Watermark Its Songs, But Didn't Say How
The largest AI music generator becomes the first customer of Musixmatch's Sentinel, screening prompts and outputs against a rights database. Disclosure stays optional.
Aug 9, 2026
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Spotify Licensed 30,000 Labels for AI Covers, But Never Said "AI"
The Merlin deal extends to the independent sector what Spotify agreed with Universal in May. Participation is optional, the product is an unreleased research preview, and the press release describes it only as fan-made covers and remixes.
Aug 4, 2026
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India's Delhi High Court Calls OpenAI's Training on News Content Fair Dealing
Justice Amit Bansal refused to injunct ChatGPT, holding that storing a news agency's copyrighted work to train a model falls inside India's fair dealing exception — a sharp turn away from the US settlements.
Jul 25, 2026
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Sony Music Sues Udio Again Over 30,117 Recordings
Blocked from expanding its original case, Sony filed a fresh federal lawsuit on July 20 — and as the only major label without a Udio license, it is now swinging for maximum statutory damages.
Jul 21, 2026
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Anthropic's $1.5 Billion Author Settlement Wins Final Approval
A federal judge signed off on the landmark deal on July 20, clearing roughly $3,000-3,100 per book for more than 480,000 works and closing the case that first put a price on pirated AI training data.
Jul 21, 2026
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Hacked Suno Source Code Suggests the AI Music Generator Scraped YouTube Music
Files given to 404 Media by a hacker list more than two million YouTube Music clips among Suno's training sources — landing in the middle of a copyright suit where labels accuse the company of circumventing YouTube's protections.
Jul 16, 2026
