Welcome to our Weekly Headline Roundup!
For the top of October, we’re covering a new AI social app, the Anthropic lawsuit, a French ruling against streaming fraud, and more!
I spent a day scrolling on SORA. The music industry should pay attention.
OpenAI is taking on TikTok with an AI video generator and social app. Could it spell the end to digital marketing, social media and rights management as we know it?
– Kristin Robinson, Billboard
Once AI Music Makes Money, Who Gets It?
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been looking at how music will be licensed by AI companies — why I think it’s inevitable, how it might happen and what it might look like. Conceptually, this is a fascinating subject, because dividing money fairly among rights holders may depend on having after-the-fact control of training data created by the initial license. But which rights holders get paid, and how much?
– Robert Levine, Billboard
Anthropic’s own guardrails revive full copyright lawsuit from litigious music publishers
Earlier this year a judge dismissed all but one of the copyright claims in a lawsuit filed by three music publishers against AI company Anthropic. However, the publishers revised and resubmitted those claims, and this time the judge reckons all the allegations are sufficiently “plausible” to proceed
– Chris Cooke, Complete Music Update
Music Superfans Drive Spending Beyond Concerts, Merch, and Streaming, Vevo Study Reveals
Music fandom has evolved into an economic driver, with superfans translating their devotion into purchasing power that extends beyond concert tickets and streaming subscriptions.
– Mandy Dalugdug, Music Business Worldwide
That’s according to the annual Vevo Media Tracker, which surveyed 6,101 respondents across the US, UK and Australia. The survey found that 96% of consumers identify as part of some fandom. Among music fans specifically, 89% said their fandom is central to their identity.
RIAA Singles Out Discord and Telegram as ‘Primary Mechanisms’ of Pre-Release Piracy In US Government Report
In the U.S. Trade Representative’s (USTR) yearly review of “Notorious Markets” facilitating copyright infringement, the RIAA submitted its latest assessment to aid in identifying this year’s biggest offenders. Last week, the RIAA highlighted Telegram and Discord as problematic distribution channels, playing a major role in pre-release music piracy.
– Ashley King, Digital Music News
Record industry celebrates as French courts confirm that “enabling streaming fraud is unlawful”
A French court has told internet company OVH to stop hosting stream manipulation websites JustAnotherpanel and BuyBestSuperfans. The music industry has welcomed the ruling as part of its battle against stream manipulation, saying it “confirms that enabling streaming fraud is unlawful in France”
– Chris Cooke, Complete Music Update