UMG demands streaming services block AI-generated music.

Universal Music Group has issued takedown requests to streaming music services, including Apple Music and Spotify, asking them to block AI systems from scraping melodies and lyrics from their services. The music label has said that AI-generated songs, including covers of existing songs, involve a breach of copyright. AI-generated songs are created by analyzing existing music and lyrics, and UMG has warned that some AI systems may have been trained on copyrighted content without obtaining the required consents or paying compensation to the rightsholders.