The AI music economy, documented.

Warner Music and Suno sign a licensing deal and settle litigation; Suno acquires Songkick.

Universal settles with Udio (29 Oct 2025) with payment plus a licensing deal; Sony remains in litigation.

The UMG and Udio settlement reported as the first per-generation pricing template at US$0.002–0.005.

Sony v. Suno fair-use hearing scheduled for July 2026.

Warner Music acquires AI attribution startup Sureel.

Stephen Chow's Bingo Group lists three film IPs on ByteDance's copyright commercialisation platform.

Licensed derivative-creation templates exceed 100,000 uses per day.

The first 34 publisher licensing deals average roughly US$24M per year among disclosed deals.

Reddit's AI licensing revenue near US$130M, about 10% of total revenue.

News Corp's OpenAI deal worth more than US$250M over five years; Epoch AI projects public human-generated data fully utilised 2026–2032.

Anthropic's US$1.5B settlement, the largest publicly reported copyright recovery.

SourceAudio's opt-in AI dataset licensing tops US$1.35M in new ARR before launch.

AI Act rules for general-purpose models, including transparency and copyright, effective August 2025.

Mandatory training-data summary template; AI Office verification powers from 2 August 2026.

China's 2026 rules require labelling, traceability and copyright protection for AI-generated content.

Response to the Productivity Commission's proposed text-and-data-mining exception.

8.2M self-releasing artists; artist numbers growing about 3.5x faster than their revenue.

Non-majors own 46.7% of recorded music, US$14.3B in 2023 revenues.

Nguyen v. Suno alleges about 60% of roughly 40M training tracks came from independent artists; Suno reports 100M+ users and US$300M ARR.

Major-label settlements and licensing deals do not extend to independent musicians.

23% of AU/NZ music-creator revenue at risk by 2028; 82% fear for their livelihood.

AI training dataset market from US$2.6B (2024) to a projected US$8.6B (2030).

Generative AI music sector from AU$430M (2023) to a projected AU$4.5B (2028).