{"id":8445,"date":"2025-11-04T20:09:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T20:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/ai-music-settlement-drake-appeal-sia-divorce-more-music-law-news\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T20:09:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T20:09:21","slug":"ai-music-settlement-drake-appeal-sia-divorce-more-music-law-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/ai-music-settlement-drake-appeal-sia-divorce-more-music-law-news\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Music Settlement, Drake Appeal, Sia Divorce & More Music Law News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n\tTHE BIG NEWS:<\/strong> Universal Music Group and artificial intelligence music service Udio reached a landmark agreement last week to end their lawsuit \u00a0\u2013 the first major settlement in the battle over the future of AI music. Here\u2019s everything you need to know.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe deal, announced Wednesday, will end UMG\u2019s allegations that Udio broke the law by training its AI models on vast troves of copyrighted songs \u2014 an accusation made in dozens of other lawsuits filed against booming AI firms by book authors, news outlets, movie studios and visual artists. The agreement involves both a \u201ccompensatory\u201d settlement for past sins and an ongoing partnership for a new, more limited subscription AI service that pays fees to UMG and its artists.<\/p>\n

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\n\t-The agreement is much more than a legal settlement, Udio CEO Andrew Sanchez told Billboard<\/em>\u2019s Kristin Robinson in a detailed question-and-answer session just hours after the news broke: \u201cWe\u2019re making a new market here, which we think is an enormous one.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t-The deal between UMG and Udio will resolve their<\/em> legal battle, but broader litigation involving rival AI firm Suno and both Sony Music and Warner Music is still very much pending. Are more settlements coming? Does the deal impact the case? Go read my look-ahead analysis of the ongoing court battle.<\/p>\n

\n\t-Will AI do more harm than good for the music business? That\u2019s the question Billboard<\/em>\u2019s Glenn Peoples is asking \u2013 and financial analysts don\u2019t have a clear answer. Some believe AI\u2019s negatives outweigh its positives, while others see mostly upside. Maybe it\u2019s just too early to know, Glenn says: \u201cIn the near term, expect more deals like UMG\u2019s partnership with Udio. Over the long term, expect to be surprised.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t-Artist advocates are already demanding answers about how exactly this whole thing will work. According to the Music Artists Coalition, talk of \u201cpartnership\u201d and \u201cconsent\u201d are all well and good, but details are what matter: \u201cWe have to make sure it doesn\u2019t come at the expense of the people who actually create the music,\u201d MAC founder Irving Azoff said.<\/p>\n

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\n\t-To put it lightly, Udio subscribers were not big fans of the settlement, which saw the company immediately disable downloads \u2013 even for songs that users created long before the deal was reached. After two days of outrage and threats of legal action, Udio said it would open a 48-hour window for users to download their songs. But with wholesale changes to the platform coming soon, will that be enough to satisfy them?<\/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\tAINT OVER YET<\/strong> \u2013 Drake is now formally appealing last month\u2019s court ruling that dismissed his defamation lawsuit against Universal Music Group (UMG) over Kendrick Lamar\u2019s diss track \u201cNot Like Us,\u201d prolonging a messy legal drama that has captivated the music industry and, at times, drawn ridicule in the hip-hop world.<\/p>\n

\n\tDIDDY APPEAL <\/strong>\u2013 Sean \u201cDiddy\u201d Combs is appealing too \u2013 and he\u2019ll get a fast-track process to do it. With such cases sometimes lasting years, his lawyers argued that he could be nearly finished with his three-ish year prison sentence by the time an appellate court rules on his prostitution convictions.<\/p>\n

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\n\tPOT SHOTS<\/strong> \u2013 Offset is facing a new civil assault lawsuit claiming he punched a security guard in the face at a cannabis dispensary in Los Angeles after being asked to show his I.D., sending the staffer to the emergency room. <\/p>\n

\n\tMASSIVE FINE<\/strong> \u2013 Fugees rapper Pras Michel must forfeit a whopping $64 million to the government following his conviction on illegal foreign lobbying and conspiracy charges, a federal judge says, overruling his protests that it\u2019s \u201cgrossly disproportionate.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDRAKE SUED<\/strong> \u2013 Drake and internet personality Adin Ross are facing a class action accusing them of using \u201cdeceptive, fraudulent and unfair\u201d practices to promote online sweepstake casino Stake and \u201cencourage impressionable users to gamble,\u201d including using house money to do it.<\/p>\n

\n\tDRAKE NOT SUED<\/strong> \u2013 Another class action, this one against Spotify, claims that the platform has turned a \u201cblind eye\u201d to streaming fraud and allowed billions of fake plays. It alleges that Drake is one of the most-boosted artists, but the rapper is not named as a defendant nor accused of wrongdoing.<\/p>\n

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\n\tFAIR TRADE? <\/strong>Cam\u2019ron is suing J. Cole over allegations he reneged on a deal to swap featured credits \u2013 claiming he provided a verse for Cole\u2019s \u201cReady \u201924\u201d but that Cole repeatedly declined to do the same, or even appear on Killa Cam\u2019s podcast.<\/p>\n

\n\tCUSTODY TRUCE <\/strong>\u2013 Halle Bailey and DDG temporarily agreed to share custody of their son and drop domestic violence claims against each other, putting a halt to the musicians\u2019 messy legal battle after months of back and forth.<\/p>\n

\n\tNEWJEANS, SAME LABEL<\/strong> \u2013 A Korean court issued a ruling rejecting NewJeans\u2019 attempt to break away from its label ADOR, dealing a major victory to the HYBE subsidiary in its closely-watched legal battle with the chart-topping K-pop group.<\/p>\n

\n\tDEPOSITION DRAMA <\/strong>\u2013 A judge says Tory Lanez must sit for a deposition in litigation stemming from his alleged shooting of Megan Thee Stallion in 2020. The case was filed by Megan against gossip blogger Milagro Gramz, who she claims spread falsehoods about the shooting.<\/p>\n

\n\tNOT VERY CASH MONEY<\/strong> \u2013 Former Hot Boys member Turk is being sued by a concert promoter over online threats that supposedly threatened to derail a Cash Money Records reunion tour featuring Birdman and Juvenile<\/p>\n

\n\tUGLY DIVORCE<\/strong> \u2013 Sia and her estranged husband are fighting over custody of their child amid divorce proceedings \u2014 and the crossfire is getting ugly. Among other claims, he says the pop star is a drug addict who can\u2019t care for a baby, and she says he was investigated over child pornography.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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