What AI owes the people who make content, and how to make sure they get paid. Each issue breaks down the deals, lawsuits and pricing moves shaping content’s value to AI, so publishers, labels and rights holders can protect what their work is worth.
The US Copyright Office wants to size music streaming fraud. Why the industry needs one shared evidence standard by November 23, not a set of competing counts.
Read the issue →Suno says it has “far beyond” two million subscribers but shares no figures. Why rights holders should demand audited usage reporting before licensing.
Read the issue →Indie publishers IMPEL and IMPF want songs valued at least equal to recordings in AI deals. Why attribution, not early pilot terms, should set the split.
Read the issue →Qobuz now tags AI tracks and found 60% of their streams fraudulent. Why detection has become a royalty control, and who gets to audit the platform’s call.
Read the issue →UMG and Sony’s new suit against Suno argues that training on an infringing model’s output launders it, making model lineage the licensing question.
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