{"id":109394,"date":"2025-10-30T20:01:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T20:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/109394\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T20:01:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T20:01:14","slug":"universal-music-group-and-ai-music-company-udio-reach-agreement-in-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/109394\/","title":{"rendered":"Universal Music Group and AI Music Company Udio Reach Agreement in Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Universal Music Group (UMG)<\/a> and Udio<\/a>, an artificial intelligence (AI) developer focused on music, have reached an agreement in last year\u2019s copyright infringement lawsuit<\/a>, which UMG, Sony Music, Warner Music Group, and the Recording Industry Association of America brought against Udio and Suno. At the time, UMG accused Udio of copyright infringement on an \u201calmost unimaginable scale\u201d and training its AI models on the label\u2019s recordings. A press release<\/a> from UMG states that the two companies will now \u201ccollaborate on an innovative, new commercial music creation, consumption, and streaming experience,\u201d as Billboard<\/a> notes. The deal also includes a compensatory legal settlement for UMG.<\/p>\n

UMG\u2019s lawsuit against Udio was focused solely on infringement of the company\u2019s sound recordings; the new agreement has established a licensing framework for UMG\u2019s sound recordings as well as songs and publishing assets. Participating UMG artists and songwriters will receive financial compensation for the training of AI models and for its outputs. The new collaborative platform launches in 2026, and UMG artists and songwriters can opt in to participate. Songs created using Udio\u2019s current model will be \u201ccontrolled within a walled garden,\u201d fingerprinted, and filtered before the new effects go into place.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe 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 reads the press release. Billboard reports that users can create mashups, remixes, and tempo changes to existing, licensed works; swap vocals with UMG artists\u2019 voices who opted in to the program; and can only listen to the creations within the service.<\/p>\n

In a statement, Udio co-founder and chief executive Andrew Sanchez said, \u201cThis moment brings to life everything we\u2019ve been building toward\u2014uniting 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

UMG chairman and chief executive Lucian Grainge added, \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. We look forward to working with Andrew who 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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Universal Music Group (UMG) and Udio, an artificial intelligence (AI) developer focused on music, have reached an agreement…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109395,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,363,364,34483,6712,111,139,69,145],"class_list":["post-109394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-industry-news","tag-legal","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}