Using Instagram’s free music in business promotions is treated as commercial use. The key takeaway is that companies must obtain licences to avoid copyright ...

The backstory makes the moment even sweeter. Carey recorded the album Somebody’s Ugly in 1995 under the band name Chick, entirely in secret, during sessions for Daydream. “I was just rebelling,” Carey ...

Streaming pivots to retention engineering, TikTok commands 84% of chart entries, AI reshapes creation. Pop culture rewrote itself in 2026.

Music publishers sue Anthropic for $3B over alleged torrenting of copyrighted songs to train Claude AI, marking tech industry ...

The publishers initially alleged the AI company infringed 500 works. They say evidence brought to light in a copyright ...

Gene Simmons, the co-lead singer of Kiss, writes that a bill now before Congress has the potential to correct a decades-old loophole that is hurting the next generation of musicians.

The bitrate of lossless files is ridiculously high. Whereas 320kbps is pretty much the maximum you'll see for lossy tracks, ...

The album, visuals, and interactive elements are all connected, inviting audiences to explore a world built through ...

Song generation tools like Suno and Udio let users create music merely by typing some ideas into a chatbot window. Anyone can ...

In November, KNKX published a story about live music licensing costs and received many reader questions. We set out to ...

Music labels filed a new copyright case against Anthropic to address the 'wilful infringement' that they learnt in the first ...

The human impulse to steal has been accelerated by AI, inequality and our political leaders – with profound consequences, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew ...