According to a newsletter sent to music industry partners about the new system, Apple Music advises that tags should be applied when a “material portion” of the content has used AI. “These new tagging requirements provide a concrete first step toward the transparency necessary for the industry to establish best practices and policies that work for everyone,” the announcement reads.
Source: Apple Music Introduces Tagging for AI Songs, Its First Regulation on AI Use
The UK’s creative industries must not be sacrificed in the pursuit of speculative gains in AI technology, a House of Lords committee has warned, as the government prepares to reveal the economic cost of proposals to change copyright rules. A report by peers has urged ministers to develop a licensing regime for the use of creative works in AI products and abandon proposals to let tech firms use them without permission.
Source: UK arts must not be sacrificed for speculative AI gains, peers say
The BBC may have struck what it described as a landmark YouTube deal this year but it sees little commercial opportunity on the Google-owned behemoth. In its charter review consultation response today, the corporation said “we do not envisage a major commercial upside” to making more YouTube-first shows “due to the limited revenues on offer from video sharing platforms.”
Source: ‘YouTube Economics Are Challenging For Broadcasters,’ BBC Says
Audible is rolling out a cheaper “Standard” subscription plan that costs $8.99 per month, the Amazon-owned company announced on Tuesday. The new plan is $6 cheaper than the platform’s existing “Premium” plan, which costs $14.95 per month. The Standard plan includes one audiobook per month from Audible’s catalog and unlimited listening from a curated library that includes a selection of Audible Originals.
Source: Audible launches a cheaper ‘Standard’ subscription plan, challenging Spotify
In an open letter, BBC director-general Tim Davie, Financial Times CEO Jon Slade, The Guardian CEO Anna Bateson, Sky News executive chairman David Rhodes, and Telegraph Media Group CEO Anna Jones have invited “global leaders across publishing, broadcasting, media and news” — to join as founding members of SPUR (the Standards for Publisher Usage Rights coalition).
Source: U.K. News Organizations Form Media Coalition Over AI Publishing Rights
Despite a legal obligation to publish a summary in line with the template provided by the European Commission’s AI Office, the likes of OpenAI, Google, and xAI have failed to do so. As Zuzanna Warso and Paul Keller from Open Future have noted, some companies have published a paragraph or two about training data along with other model documentation. It is not even close to what they are legally mandated to publish
Source: How Big AI Developers are Skirting a Mandate for Training Data Transparency
Speaking at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media and Telecom Conference in San Francisco on Monday, Thomson said News Corp has a “woo and a sue strategy.” He explained: “We’ll woo you, we’d like you to be our partner, but if you’re stealing our stuff we are going to sue you. And if you look at a lot of the bots coming in and scraping our stuff and they’re using our material in new AI verticals, we’re coming for you.
Source: News Corp CEO Robert Thomson warns AI companies scraping without paying: ‘We’re coming for you’
The Authors Guild announced it has expanded its “Human Authored” certification program beyond its own membership to any author whose books are published in the United States. The certification program, which launched in beta for Guild members in January 2025, allows authors and publishers to place a trademarked seal on books to signal that the text was written by a human rather than generated by artificial intelligence.
Source: Authors Guild Expands ‘Human Authored’ Certification Program
The acquisitive company confirmed on Wednesday (March 4) that it has invested more than $500 million across acquisitions, advances, and other growth initiatives over the past 12 months alone. Create said that this M&A activity has positioned it “as a scaled co-owner and operator of enduring music businesses with global reach”.
Source: Create Music Group, at $2.2 billion valuation, completes $450 million fundraise
The accelerator is the work of a company called Prose Ventures, founded by veteran investor and founder Jules Miller, who decided to make the demo day a public event on Twitch to counter some of the current narrative about AI musicmakers. “There’s a lot of noise around AI music, and the only way to understand it is to listen – to the music and to the real people behind it doing serious creative work,” said Miller.
Source: AI-music artists get their own accelerator from Prose Ventures