Overview
- Universal Music Group and Udio ended their copyright fight with a compensatory legal settlement and new recording and publishing licenses.
- The companies plan a subscription service trained on authorized music that lets users remix, mash up, and customize tracks within a controlled environment.
- Udio paused downloads and moved current creations into a fingerprinted, filtered walled garden during the transition, prompting user backlash and cancellations.
- Participating UMG artists and songwriters can opt in and will be compensated for training use and platform outputs under the new framework.
- Sony Music and Warner Music remain in active litigation with Udio, and all three majors continue their case against Suno, as UMG also unveils a separate tools partnership with Stability AI.