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Sony Music CEO Talks AI: ‘We Are Going to Do Deals for New Music AI Products This Year’

Sony Music CEO Rob Stringer said that AI music product deals are coming in 2025 amid the major labels' licensing talks with Suno and Udio.

This spurred the trio to file blockbuster lawsuits against Suno and Udio in June 2024, in which they alleged copyright infringement on an “almost unimaginable scale.” There are challenges ahead to figure out proper remuneration for musical artists from generative AI, as Billboard recently described in an analysis of the Suno and Udio licensing talks. To date, Suno and Udio do not offer guidance as to which tracks were used in the making of an output, and experts are divided on whether or not the technology needed to figure that out is ready yet.

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