{"id":2123837,"date":"2025-10-30T01:03:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T01:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2123837"},"modified":"2025-10-30T01:03:02","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T01:03:02","slug":"ai-music-company-udio-settles-lawsuit-with-universal-music-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/ai-music-company-udio-settles-lawsuit-with-universal-music-group\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Music Company Udio Settles Lawsuit With Universal Music Group"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tUniversal Music Group (UMG) and Udio, one of the top AI music models on the market, have announced a strategic agreement, thereby settling the companies\u2019 copyright infringement litigation. Now, a press release from UMG states that the two companies will \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 or any consent in place.<\/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 recorded music and publishing to UMG, creating a new revenue stream for the company and its signees.<\/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 rlease, and there are already amendments to Udio in place to make sure that all songs created with it are fingerprinted, filtered and more.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe new collaborative platform will be launched in 2026 and 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 according to the release.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThis marks UMG\u2019s latest collaboration with an AI music company, and certainly its biggest announcement 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.<\/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<\/strong>, 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<\/strong>, 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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\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.billboard.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Universal Music Group (UMG) and Udio, one of the top AI music models on the market, have announced a strategic agreement, thereby settling the companies\u2019 copyright infringement litigation. Now, a press release from UMG states that the two companies will \u201ccollaborate on an innovative, new commercial music creation, consumption and streaming experience.\u201d This deal includes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2123838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[30218,326923,344480,21932,403364,46171],"class_list":["post-2123837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-ai","tag-ai-music","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-music-news","tag-udio","tag-universal-music-group"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AI-Music-Company-Udio-Settles-Lawsuit-With-Universal-Music-Group.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2123837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2123839,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123837\/revisions\/2123839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2123838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2123837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2123837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2123837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}