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Apple Music has opened a 600-seat concert hall beneath its UK headquarters at Battersea Power Station. The venue, called Apple Music Hall, features 48 Dolby Atmos speakers, 16 camera mounts, a spatial-audio live-recording system, a 38-foot stage, two recording studios and a broadcast control room for high-quality live streaming. It is designed for intimate seating and professional dress.
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Universal Music Group and ElevenLabs have signed a multi-year licensing agreement to launch an AI-powered platform that lets fans remix, mash up, and reinterpret songs from the UMG catalog. The service will use ElevenLabs’ technology to generate new track interpretations and personalized vocal experiences, while ensuring artists receive compensation for derivative works.
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Sony Music and Warner Chappell have filed a lawsuit against Anthropic, alleging that the company used tens of thousands of copyrighted songs and lyrics to train its Claude large-language models. The plaintiffs claim this constitutes a blatant, “brazen campaign” of intellectual-property theft and a violation of copyright law.
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Apple Music will add visible labels to any track identified as having been created with artificial-intelligence assistance. Content providers must tag such songs as “materially generated using AI,” and the mandatory tags will appear on the service’s interface later this year. This labeling will apply to all AI-made tracks.
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Apple Music has increased its subscription cost, raising the individual plan by $1 to $11.99. The change also affects several Apple One bundles. This is the first price adjustment for Apple Music since 2022.
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Apple Music is rolling out a Transparency Tag system that lets music distributors and record labels label AI-generated songs, artwork or lyrics. The tags are optional; they only appear when the distributor chooses to apply them, enabling the service to flag AI-created content. The impact of the labeling on listeners remains to be seen.
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