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Shamrock Capital Launches Fourth Content Strategy Fund Since 2015

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The Los Angeles-based investment firm focused on media, entertainment and communications has had no trouble lining up takers for its fourth fund for content acquisitions since 2015. That’s the year Shamrock first took aim at acquiring and managing content-related cash flows for discrete rightsholders. Shamrock disclosed Tuesday that its plan to raise $700 million for Shamrock Capital Content Fund IV, L.P. was oversubscribed to the tune of $813 million.

Source: Shamrock Capital Launches Fourth Content Strategy Fund Since 2015

Anna’s Archive Hit With $19.5m Default Judgment and Global Domain Takedown Order

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A coalition of thirteen major publishers has won a massive $19.5 million default judgment against shadow library Anna’s Archive. A New York federal judge fully approved the publishers’ requests, issuing a broad permanent injunction that orders more than twenty specific global registries, hosts, and service providers to immediately disable the site’s remaining domains.

Source: Anna’s Archive Hit With $19.5m Default Judgment and Global Domain Takedown Order

Spotify Officially Bans AI-Generated Podcasts That Impersonate Someone Else

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Spotify is aiming to boost the trust of podcast listeners — by extending its verification program to podcasts and affirming that using AI to “impersonate” another podcaster is not allowed. According to the company, Spotify’s policies have always prohibited unauthorized impersonation. Now it is reaffirming the policy in the context of AI to “help ensure creators remain in control of their identity and listeners can engage with content they know is real,” a company rep said.

Source: Spotify Officially Bans AI-Generated Podcasts That Impersonate Someone Else

Coca-Cola denies Johnny Cash ‘sound-alike’ claim

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The Coca-Cola Company (TCCC) pushed back against a lawsuit filed by the estate of Johnny Cash, denying that a singer used in a college football-themed commercial infringed on the late country icon’s voice rights. Cash’s estate filed the lawsuit in US District Court in Nashville in November 2025, alleging Coca-Cola hired a tribute singer to record vocals for a commercial that started airing in August 2025.

Source: Coca-Cola denies Johnny Cash ‘sound-alike’ claim

Meet Tamber, an AI Music Platform Whose Founder Isn’t Interested in ‘Blatantly Robbing’ Musicians

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Tamber, which Wrenn has described previously as an “Adobe Creative Suite for music,” uses artificial intelligence to transform feelings, colors, sounds and other descriptive text into musical ideas, and Wrenn believes it could be the antidote to the rise of generative AI tools that are training on “stolen data” and dominating the market right now. 

Source: Meet Tamber, an AI Music Platform Whose Founder Isn’t Interested in ‘Blatantly Robbing’ Musicians

Anthropic’s $1.5B copyright settlement is getting messy as judge delays approval

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After several authors and class members raised objections to Anthropic’s $1.5 billion settlement over its widespread book piracy to train AI, a federal judge has delayed final approvals of the settlement. On Thursday, US District Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin declined to rubber-stamp what’s regarded as the largest copyright settlement in US history. Instead, she wanted to better understand why some class members were objecting and opting out of the settlement. 

Source: Anthropic’s $1.5B copyright settlement is getting messy as judge delays approval

Who Owns AI-Generated Content? Documenting the Creation Process Is Critical

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Businesses across industries now use generative AI to draft advertising and website text, create images and presentations, generate software code and develop product concepts. As that use becomes more common, so does an increasingly important question: who, if anyone, owns the output? Copyright depends on authorship, which the Court has described as the person “to whom anything owes its origin.” In the AI context, that makes human authorship the central issue.

Source: Who Owns AI-Generated Content? Documenting the Creation Process Is Critical

EU Commission preparing law on licensing content for AI

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The European Commission is working on a law focused on the process for licensing creative content – like writing or art – to AI developers, according to a consultation published on Wednesday.  the EU’s executive laid out plans for a “targeted legislative initiative” to complement existing copyright rules. This will weigh different possible levels of intervention, according to the consultation.

Source: EU Commission preparing law on licensing content for AI

Suno fights to keep Warner Music settlement terms away from UMG and Sony

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A federal magistrate blocked Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment from obtaining Suno’s settlement agreement with Warner Music Group in April. Now, the AI startup is pointing to the labels’ “mischaracterization” of the ruling as they attempt to reopen the dispute. That’s according to Suno’s response to the labels’ objection to the magistrate judge’s April 6 discovery ruling.

Source: Suno fights to keep Warner Music settlement terms away from UMG and Sony

Red Hot Chili Peppers Ink $300 Million-Plus Deal With Warner Music to Sell Catalog

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The Red Hot Chili Peppers sold the rights to their recorded catalog to Warner Music Group in a deal worth more than $300 million, sources familiar with the matter tell The Hollywood Reporter, with WMG acquiring the catalog through the company’s joint venture with Bain Capital. WMG first announced its $1.2 billion joint venture catalog acquisition vehicle with Bain last July and reported in its May 7 earnings report that they’d spent $650 million on catalogs since the JV’s launch,

Source: Red Hot Chili Peppers Ink $300 Million-Plus Deal With Warner Music to Sell Catalog

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