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For the first time, The Mechanical Licensing Collective sent out a monthly round of mechanical royalty payments, distributing over $24 million to its Members based on usage data that American digital service providers reported for January 2021.

After three years of courtroom battles, BMI and the Radio Music License Committee have reached a settlement covering the fees nearly 9,000 radio stations pay to license music, closing out a rate dispute that had been working its way through the federal courts.

ByteDance has rolled out Ripple, a no-cost music-creation application designed to let creators build and refine audio tracks for short-form videos, though for now only invited testers in the United States can get in.

ElevenLabs unveiled The Eleven Album, a fresh music series featuring original songs made jointly with its Eleven Music model and a roster of recognizable performers such as Liza Minnelli, Art Garfunkel, Patrick Patrikios, Willonius, IAMSU!, Demitri Leiros, Emily Falvey, Sunsetto, Kondzilla, Chris Lyons, Kai, Angelbaby, and Michael...

A court in Munich has sided with GEMA, Germany's collecting society for musical rights, determining that OpenAI owes licensing payments for the copyrighted lyrics embedded in its AI systems, ChatGPT among them.

A coalition made up of Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Pandora, and Google, which owns YouTube Music, has submitted a shared request asking the Copyright Royalty Board to strike Global Music Rights from Phonorecords V.

Soundverse markets itself as a complete AI production studio capable of producing music, video, lyrics, and vocals from nothing more than a written prompt, with the entire process guided by a system it calls Agent One, described by the company as an AI producer built on reasoning.

Google DeepMind's Lyria 3 music-generation model has been folded into Gemini, letting people in the beta test produce 30-second songs starting from either written prompts or images they upload.

Starting Monday at 11 a.m. Eastern time, the AI music generator Udio is opening a 48-hour window that lets members retrieve songs they had previously built on the platform, ahead of a broader shift in how the service will operate under a newly struck legal agreement with Universal Music Group.

ByteDance has rolled out a new no-cost music creation app called Ripple, built around a pair of core features: an AI tool that turns a hummed melody into a finished song, and a built-in virtual recording studio.