{"id":7924,"date":"2025-09-24T02:00:42","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T02:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/ai-artist-xania-monet-diddy-sentencing-ticketmaster-more-music-law\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T02:00:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T02:00:42","slug":"ai-artist-xania-monet-diddy-sentencing-ticketmaster-more-music-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/ai-artist-xania-monet-diddy-sentencing-ticketmaster-more-music-law\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Artist Xania Monet, Diddy Sentencing, Ticketmaster & More Music Law"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n\tTHE BIG STORY:<\/strong> If you needed another clear sign that artificial intelligence is seeping into every aspect of American cultural life, here\u2019s one: An AI artist just signed a record deal, the hallowed milestone of success for any emerging musician.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs first reported by Billboard<\/em> last week, Xania Monet \u2014 the avatar of a woman named Telisha Jones who writes her own lyrics but uses Suno to create the music \u2014 inked a record contract worth millions. The deal has quickly become the talk of the industry, including from stars who have spoken out, including Kehlani, who said: \u201cI don\u2019t respect it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tBut\u2026what exactly is a label buying here? It remains unclear the extent to which you can secure intellectual property rights to AI-generated songs, raising hurdles for monetizing them. And platforms like Suno are still facing trillion-dollar infringement lawsuits that essentially claim the technology itself is illegal. For more, go read our full story.<\/p>\n

\n\tYou\u2019re reading The Legal Beat, a weekly newsletter about music law from <\/em>Billboard Pro, offering you a one-stop cheat sheet of big new cases, important rulings and all the fun stuff in between. To get the newsletter in your inbox every Tuesday, go subscribe here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

\n\t\tOther top stories this week\u2026\t<\/h3>\n

\n\tBLIGE CASE TOSSED <\/strong>\u2013 A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit against Universal Music Group claiming Mary J. Blige\u2019s enduring 1992 hit \u201cReal Love\u201d infringed the oft-sampled 1973 funk song \u201cImpeach the President\u201d by the Honey Drippers, which has been used by Run-DMC, Dr. Dre, Doja Cat and many others over the years. The judge said the two songs were so different that nobody would hear the earlier song: \u201cThe songs do not sound the same.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDIDDY SENTENCING<\/strong> \u2013 Attorneys for Sean \u201cDiddy\u201d Combs urged a federal judge to sentence him to just 14 months in prison on his prostitution convictions, asking him to reject the kind of \u201cdraconian\u201d punishment sought by prosecutors. Because the star has already served 13 months in jail since he was arrested, that sentence would see him released almost immediately: \u201cIt is time for Mr. Combs to go home.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLETTERS OF SUPPORT<\/strong> \u2013 To help make that argument, Diddy\u2019s lawyers filed dozens of letters from supporters, pleading with the judge to show lenience toward the rapper when he sentences him next month. They came from Diddy\u2019s mother and kids, from ex-girlfriend Yung Miami and from an executive at hip-hop label Quality Control Music \u2014 among many others.<\/p>\n

\n\tSUNO SUIT 2.0<\/strong> \u2013 Separate from the Xania Monet situation, the major record labels filed an amended version of their copyright lawsuit against the AI music firm, adding new allegations that the company illegally \u201cstream-ripped\u201d songs from YouTube to train its models. That\u2019s a hugely important new claim: In a separate such lawsuit against Anthropic, a federal judge ruled this summer that AI training itself is likely a legal \u201cfair use\u201d but that using pirated works to do it could lead to many billions in potential damages.<\/p>\n

\n\tFTC, YEAH YOU KNOW ME<\/strong> \u2013 The Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit against Live Nation and Ticketmaster accusing the concert giants of advertising misleading ticket prices and allowing scalpers to buy up tickets and resell them at inflated prices. The case came months after the agency sued a ticket broker that allegedly used thousands of fake Ticketmaster accounts to buy and resell tickets to Taylor Swift concerts and other events \u2014 and two years after Live Nation was hit with a sweeping monopoly lawsuit by the U.S. Department of Justice.<\/p>\n

\n\tHYPE VID SETTLEMENT<\/strong> \u2013 Mike Tyson settled a lawsuit claiming he illegally used the Jay-Z, DMX and Ja Rule song \u201cMurdergram\u201d in an Instagram video promoting his boxing match against Jake Paul. The case was filed by Ty Fyffe, a producer and co-writer of the 1998 track who claimed that Tyson had willfully infringed his copyrights by using the song in a training video ahead of his much-hyped fight with Paul.<\/p>\n

\n\tLOSE YOUR \u2026 CASE?<\/strong> \u2013 Meta urged a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit from Eight Mile Style, a music publisher that owns hundreds of Eminem songs, which claims the social media giant made \u201cLose Yourself\u201d and other iconic tracks available to billions of users. In the motion, Facebook\u2019s lawyers argued the case was \u201cremarkably short on specifics\u201d about actual infringing material: \u201cFanciful estimates are not a substitute for well-pleaded facts,\u201d the company wrote.<\/p>\n

\n\tNEVER MEANT TO CAUSE YOU ANY PAIN<\/strong> \u2013 The Prince estate asked a judge to dismiss a lawsuit by the late singer\u2019s Purple Rain<\/em> co-star Apollonia (Patty Kotero) that claims the estate is trying to \u201csteal\u201d her name, arguing it has no intention of forcing her to change her name \u2014 and has repeatedly told her as much. The filing did say, however, that Apollonia secured her own trademarks during \u201cthe chaotic period following Prince\u2019s death.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSEX TAPE LEAK CASE<\/strong> \u2013 Colombian pop star Be\u00e9le was hit with a lawsuit alleging invasion of privacy and sexual cyberharassment from ex-girlfriend Isabella Ladera, claiming he is responsible for leaking their sex tape. Be\u00e9le\u2019s reps have denied that he was the source of the leak and said the singer is \u201calso a victim,\u201d but Ladera\u2019s lawsuit placed the blame squarely on him: \u201cOnly two people had the videos, and Ladera had already erased them almost a year and a half before.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMEGAN THEE PLAINTIFF<\/strong> \u2013 Lawyers for Megan Thee Stallion argued in court filings that the social media personality DJ Akademiks must reveal whether Tory Lanez sent him a confidential DNA testing report during the singer\u2019s criminal case. The filings came amid discovery in a defamation case against Milagro Gramz, a gossip blogger and ardent online defender of Lanez.<\/p>\n


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