Overview
- Universal Music Group and Udio reached a compensatory legal settlement and new licensing deals covering recorded music and publishing.
- The companies said a subscription service will launch next year on Udio, trained on authorized and licensed recordings to let users customize, stream, and share music.
- Financial terms were not disclosed.
- The agreement is the first since UMG, Sony Music, and Warner Records sued Udio and rival Suno in 2024 over alleged mass copying of label recordings.
- Udio and Suno have argued that training on copyrighted songs qualifies as fair use, while a separate Manhattan court this month dismissed Drake’s defamation case involving UMG.