{"id":2367027,"date":"2026-04-10T12:45:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T12:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2367027"},"modified":"2026-04-10T12:45:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T12:45:11","slug":"udio-signs-its-latest-ai-music-licensing-deal-with-kobalt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/udio-signs-its-latest-ai-music-licensing-deal-with-kobalt\/","title":{"rendered":"Udio signs its latest AI-music licensing deal \u2013 with Kobalt"},"content":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\n<p>AI-music startup Udio is forging ahead with the deals required to launch its new model later this year. UMG, WMG and Merlin are already on board, and now they have been joined by Kobalt.\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/p><p>Naturally, terms of the deal have not been made public, although the announcement did reiterate some of Udio\u2019s plans for the next-generation version of its service, which it is aiming to launch later in the year.\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/p><p>\u201cA\u00a0suite of creative experiences that enable users to make remixes, covers, and new songs using the voices of artists and compositions of songwriters who choose to participate, while ensuring artists and songwriters are credited and paid,\u201d is the pitch.\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Udio also repeated its promise to launch \u201cexpanded protections and other measures designed to safeguard the rights of artists and songwriters\u201d ahead of the launch.\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/p><p>The deal follows Kobalt\u2019s agreement with another AI-music firm, ElevenLabs, last August.\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/musically.com\/2025\/08\/06\/elevenlabs-debuts-ai-music-service-with-kobalt-and-merlin-deals\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">That deal included a clause<\/a>\u00a0stipulating \u201cparity\u201d between publishers and recordings owners for the royalty payouts. No such clause has been mentioned with the Udio agreement however.\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/p><p>Kobalt CEO Laurent Hubert\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/musically.com\/2026\/01\/30\/music-ally-connect-keynotes-kobalt-soundexchange-audiosalad-and-more\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">talked about AI during his keynote at our Music Ally Connect conference<\/a>\u00a0in January.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/p><p>\u201cI think AI is an opportunity. I think it will grow the pie, as opposed to shift the pie. I think it will increase consumption, and from that perspective, we are generally quite positive,\u201d he said then.\n\n\n<section id=\"block-35\" class=\"below-content widget widget_block\"><nav class=\"jp-relatedposts-i2 wp-block-jetpack-related-posts\" data-layout=\"grid\" aria-label=\"Related Stories\"><h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Related Stories<\/h3><\/nav><\/section><section id=\"block-32\" class=\"below-content widget widget_block\"><aside>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<\/section><section id=\"block-25\" class=\"below-content widget widget_block\">\n\n<\/section><\/div>\r\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\r\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source musically.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI-music startup Udio is forging ahead with the deals required to launch its new model later this year. UMG, WMG and Merlin are already on board, and now they have been joined by Kobalt. Naturally, terms of the deal have not been made public, although the announcement did reiterate some of Udio\u2019s plans for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2367028,"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":[344480,344309,390709,22821,403364],"class_list":["post-2367027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-kobalt","tag-licensing-deals","tag-spotify","tag-udio"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Udio-signs-its-latest-AI-music-licensing-deal-\u2013-with-Kobalt.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367027","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=2367027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2367029,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367027\/revisions\/2367029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2367028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2367027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2367027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2367027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}