{"id":2170822,"date":"2025-11-21T18:07:35","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T18:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2170822"},"modified":"2025-11-21T18:07:35","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T18:07:35","slug":"major-music-studios-strike-licensing-deals-with-ai-firms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/major-music-studios-strike-licensing-deals-with-ai-firms\/","title":{"rendered":"Major music studios strike licensing deals with AI firms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Studio powerhouses Warner Music Group, Universal Music Group, and Sony Music Entertainment signed a licensing agreement with AI music startup Klay Vision to provide their music catalogs as training material for the startup\u2019s song-generation engine, the companies <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thesyn.disco.ac\/view-campaign-email\/19ad7651-b440-49ec-917e-976b811c46bf\/211261\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:announced;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">announced<\/a> Thursday. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wmg.com\/news\/warner-music-group-and-udio-collaborate-to-build-a-new-licensed-music-creation-service\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:WMG;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">WMG<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.universalmusic.com\/universal-music-group-and-udio-announce-udios-first-strategic-agreements-for-new-licensed-ai-music-creation-platform\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:UMG;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">UMG<\/a> also have licensing agreements with music startup Udio \u2014 both of which <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Entertainment\/wireStory\/warner-music-ai-startup-udio-settle-copyright-battle-127705801\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:began as lawsuits;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">began as lawsuits<\/a> \u2014 but Klay is the first to publicly announce partnerships with all of the Big Three. Suno, another popular song-generation platform, is still wrapped up in lawsuits and hasn\u2019t yet reached licensing agreements with the studios.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Music is just one industry turning to licensing deals to settle its long, embattled copyright disputes with AI companies. Content creators are <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/ai-boom-turning-old-content-141444955.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:inking;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">inking<\/a> deals to license their stockpile of old videos to train video-generation models. \u201cGo take your money, girl,\u201d one creator told Semafor. The phenomenon represents a widespread realization that it\u2019s easier, and more lucrative, to join powerful and well-funded AI firms rather than fight the future norm.<\/p>\n<section class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><span>\u2014 <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.semafor.com\/author\/rachyl-jones\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Rachyl Jones;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Rachyl Jones<\/a><\/span><\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Studio powerhouses Warner Music Group, Universal Music Group, and Sony Music Entertainment signed a licensing agreement with AI music startup Klay Vision to provide their music catalogs as training material for the startup\u2019s song-generation engine, the companies announced Thursday. WMG and UMG also have licensing agreements with music startup Udio \u2014 both of which began [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2170823,"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":[25172],"tags":[417092,378545,404597,368922,417093,46171,345771],"class_list":["post-2170822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-klay-vision","tag-licensing-agreement","tag-music-catalogs","tag-sony-music-entertainment","tag-training-material","tag-universal-music-group","tag-warner-music-group"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Major-music-studios-strike-licensing-deals-with-AI-firms.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2170822","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=2170822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2170822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2170824,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2170822\/revisions\/2170824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2170823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2170822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2170822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2170822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}