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Chris Cooke

Chris Cooke

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Music industry pays tribute to Dolly Parton public
Dolly Parton • 2 min read

Music industry pays tribute to Dolly Parton

The music industry has paid tribute to Dolly Parton, who died yesterday. Sony says Parton was “a monumental talent and trailblazer”, agent Neil Warnock notes that “she started with a vision and never took her foot off the gas”, while AFM calls her “a steadfast champion for working musicians”…
Chris Cooke
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Apple Music to start labelling tracks ‘Made With AI’ public
Apple Music • 2 min read

Apple Music to start labelling tracks ‘Made With AI’

Apple Music has told its industry partners that AI-generated tracks will be labelled as such within its app from later this year. It’s relying on labels and distributors to identify which tracks were “materially generated using AI”, using ‘AI transparency tags’ that Apple introduced back in March…
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Spotify to start labelling “AI personas” public
Spotify • 2 min read

Spotify to start labelling “AI personas”

Spotify will start labelling “AI personas” next month, so artists that don’t really exist but which have a profile on the streaming service with an AI-generated identity. It hopes anyone releasing music in that way will self-declare that fact, but will also be monitoring for undeclared AI personas…
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Universal and Sony sue rogue music app Musi public
Musi • 2 min read

Universal and Sony sue rogue music app Musi

Universal and Sony are suing Musi, the app that pulls in its music from YouTube rather than having its own deals with the music industry. That approach got Musi kicked out of the Apple App Store, and now the majors want to hold it liable for copyright infringement in Canada, where the app is based…
Chris Cooke
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Two class action lawsuits filed over Suno’s big data breach public
Suno • 3 min read

Two class action lawsuits filed over Suno’s big data breach

Following the recent media reports that data connected to 55.3 million Suno users was accessed by hackers last November, two class action lawsuits have now been filed against the AI company over its failure to protect that data. Which makes a nice change from all the copyright infringement lawsuits…
Chris Cooke
Chris Cooke •
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