Overview
- Warner Music Group and Udio announced a settlement on Wednesday, without disclosing financial terms.
- The deal enables a 2026 subscription platform using Udio’s models trained on licensed material from WMG’s recorded and publishing catalog.
- Udio says it will add fingerprinting and filtering, and participation for artists on WMG’s roster will be opt-in.
- Sony Music Group remains in litigation with Udio, and all three majors continue suing AI music platform Suno.
- Warner Music Group also unveiled a partnership with Stability AI to develop a suite of ethically trained music creation tools.