
Universal Music partners with ElevenLabs on AI remix platform
UMG's multi-year licensing deal with ElevenLabs lets fans remix licensed catalog tracks, with artist opt-in and a promise of compensation.
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UMG's multi-year licensing deal with ElevenLabs lets fans remix licensed catalog tracks, with artist opt-in and a promise of compensation.

The plugin ships around 250 genre-sorted Palettes and outputs MIDI loops rather than finished tracks, positioning it against Suno and Udio.

CEO Mikey Shulman says the company will fingerprint outputs and partner with distributors, following its Warner Music settlement.

The French streamer will delist AI tracks unstreamed for six months as uploads hit 90,000 per day in June 2026.

Sony seeks up to $150,000 per work after a judge blocked it from adding the tracks to the original 2024 case against the AI music generator.

A November 2025 breach at the AI music generator surfaced code pointing to YouTube Music, Deezer, and Genius as training sources.

The deal gives WMG patented 'AI DNA' technology to fingerprint songs and trace their use in training data and generated output.

The new model can shift from opera to heavy metal within a single track and rebuild song sections via prompts.

The new large model creates full compositions, more than doubling the length of last year's release.

Deezer demonetized 85% of AI streams and Spotify pulled 75 million spam tracks, but neither will block generative music outright.
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