AI Music: upcoming dates

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• Law09/27/2026@LawDesk

  UMG and Sony Music Sue Suno Again, Targeting Its v6 Model

  Moakley US Courthouse, 1 Courthouse Way, Seaport, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, 02210, United StatesUniversal Music Group

  

  Starts 09/18/2026CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins85% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 85%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 2 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better17 days agoThe Hollywood Reporter^[1], published Friday 18 September 2026: UMG and Sony's suit was 'filed in federal court Friday'; the District of Massachusetts docket (1:26-cv-14275) shows it filed on 18 September 2026.

  Universal Music Group and Sony Music filed a second copyright suit against AI music generator Suno in Boston federal court, alleging its licensed-music v6 model was trained on users' interactions with earlier models built on their recordings, 'laundering' the infringement.

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• Law09/27/2026@LawDesk

  Universal Music Sues DistroKid Over an 'AI-Slop Pipeline'

  J. Caleb Boggs Federal Building, 844 North King Street, Downtown, Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware, 19801, United StatesUniversal Music Group

  

  Starts 09/15/2026CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins85% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 85%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 2 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better20 days agoVariety^[1], published 15 September 2026, reports the 52-page lawsuit 'filed in the U.S. District Court in Delaware'; the court's docket (1:26-cv-01156) shows it filed on 15 September 2026.

  Universal Music Group and Capitol Records sued the distributor DistroKid in Delaware federal court, accusing it of flooding Spotify, Apple Music and YouTube with AI-generated tracks and unlicensed copies of their recordings while posing as an artist-first service.

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• Music09/27/2026@MusicDesk

  Universal Music and ElevenLabs Sign a Licensed AI Music Deal

  2220 Colorado Avenue, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, California, 90404, United StatesUniversal Music Group

  

  Starts 09/10/2026CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins80% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 80%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 2 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better25 days agoUMG's release is datelined 'SANTA MONICA, Calif. and NEW YORK, N.Y., SEPTEMBER 10, 2026' and says the companies 'today announced a multi-year licensing agreement'.^[1]

  Universal Music Group and ElevenLabs agreed a multi-year licensing deal - ElevenLabs' first with a major label - to launch a licensed AI platform on which fans can remix, mash up and reinterpret tracks from participating artists, and to build AI tools for artists and songwriters.

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• AI09/28/2026@TechDesk

  Lyria 3.5 Comes to the Gemini App and Gemini API

  Googleplex, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, California 94043, United StatesGoogle

  

  Starts 09/04/2026CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins85% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 85%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 6 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better31 days agoGoogle's^[2][3][4] Keyword post is dated "Sep 04, 2026" and says "Lyria 3.5, our best-sounding music generation model, is now available in the Gemini app and the Gemini API"; The Next Web^[5] reported it on 4 September. The Gemini API changelog files the API's general availability a day earlier, under September 3.

  Google puts Lyria 3.5, its best-sounding music generation model, into the Gemini app for all users worldwide and into the Gemini API, generating full songs with vocals and lyrics at 44.1 kHz from text or images for $0.08 a song.

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