Case Commentary | Musicologize

Seven Stella Lefty songs have been paired with earlier hits.

Bill Withers's publisher says Olivia Dean's "I've Seen It" copies "Just the Two of Us."

The first federal appeals court to rule on AI training and fair use said no.

Amanda Lear says "Redlights" borrows from "The Sphinx."

In 2022 I called this lawsuit silly.

Back on July 7 I wrote that the Reggaeton case had survived again and nothing about it got better.

If a given “Song B” copies, without license, protectable expression from an earlier “Song A” enough and in a way such that society should find it a trespass, that’s music copyright infringement.

Three Los Angeles songwriters say they wrote it first.

There’s little question that SUNO, and products like it, will change the way music is produced at scale.

Sometimes it will.

The headline is GEMA had a good day: injunction, disclosure of some Suno earnings, and damages to be figured out later—generally, its claims were granted.

On July 31, a Munich courtroom is expected to do something no American court has done yet: hand down a verdict on whether an AI music generator infringed the songs it trained on.

The music industry and adjacent ambitious software devs are building tools to pay artists for AI.

It seems like ages ago, I said this Reggaeton case would go away swiftly.

Excellent reasons, in fact.