{"id":111457,"date":"2025-10-30T03:03:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T03:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/111457\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T03:03:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T03:03:09","slug":"ai-music-company-udio-settles-lawsuit-with-universal-music-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/111457\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Music Company Udio Settles Lawsuit With Universal Music Group"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tUniversal Music Group (UMG) and Udio, one of the top AI music models on the market, have announced a strategic agreement, thereby ending UMG\u2019s involvement in the copyright infringement litigation it brought against Udio alongside Sony and Warner last year. A press release from UMG states that the two companies will also \u201ccollaborate on an innovative, new commercial music creation, consumption and streaming experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThis deal includes a compensatory legal settlement for UMG, which sued Udio and its rival Suno<\/a> with the two other major music companies in June 2024, accusing the two platforms of copyright infringement on an \u201calmost unimaginable scale.\u201d At the time, Suno and Udio were using UMG and the other majors\u2019 copyrighted sound recordings to train their models, which could make realistic songs at the click of a button, without a license in place. (Sony Music and Warner Music Group are still involved in the lawsuit against Udio and Suno). <\/p>\n

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\n\tAccording to the press release, this deal goes beyond just settling the lawsuit \u2014 it also provides licensing agreements for UMG\u2019s recorded music and publishing assets, creating a new revenue stream for the company and its signees. Notably, UMG\u2019s lawsuit against Udio was only focused on the apparent infringement of UMG\u2019s sound recordings, while today\u2019s agreement provides a licensing framework for not just sound recordings but songs as well. Participating UMG artists and songwriters will be rewarded for both the training process of the AI model and for its outputs, according to a source close to the deal.<\/p>\n

\n\tFor now, Udio\u2019s existing model will remain available for users as the AI company transitions over to this new model with UMG. Any song created with Udio\u2019s existing model will be \u201ccontrolled within a walled garden,\u201d according to the release, and there are already amendments in place to make sure that all songs created with Udio are fingerprinted, filtered and more. According to a source close to the deal, users are not able to export their Udio songs now.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe new collaborative platform will be launched in 2026, and UMG artists and songwriters can participate in it on an opt-in basis. The press release states it will be \u201cpowered by new cutting-edge generative AI technology that will be trained on authorized and licensed music. The new subscription service will transform the user engagement experience, creating a licensed and protected environment to customize, stream and share music responsibly, on the Udio platform.\u201d The source close to the deal adds that users will not be able to export works made within Udio\u2019s forthcoming platform. Instead, users can enjoy their creations within the service, which will be geared towards fans. Some capabilities are said to include mashups, remixes and tempo changes to existing, licensed works as well as voice swapping with UMG artists\u2019 voices who have chosen to make their vocals available to users.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThis marks UMG\u2019s latest collaboration with an AI music company and is certainly its biggest announcement on that front to date. In the past few years, UMG has struck deals with \u201cresponsible\u201d AI music companies, as the company often calls them, including KLAY, SoundLabs and Pro-Rada. More deals between UMG and AI companies are expected to arrive in the coming days.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe couldn\u2019t be more thrilled about this collaboration and the opportunity to work alongside UMG to redefine how AI empowers artists and fans,\u201d said Andrew Sanchez, co-founder & CEO of Udio, in a statement. \u201cThis moment brings to life everything we\u2019ve been building toward \u2014 uniting AI and the music industry in a way that truly champions artists. Together, we\u2019re building the technological and business landscape that will fundamentally expand what\u2019s possible in music creation and engagement.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLucian Grainge, chairman and CEO of UMG, said, \u201cThese new agreements with Udio demonstrate our commitment to do what\u2019s right by our artists and songwriters, whether that means embracing new technologies, developing new business models, diversifying revenue streams or beyond.\u00a0\u00a0We look forward to working with Andrew\u00a0who shares our belief that together, we can foster a healthy commercial AI ecosystem in which artists, songwriters, music companies and technology companies can all flourish and create incredible experiences for fans.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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