ElevenLabs has released Music v2.5, the new model behind its ElevenMusic song-generation platform. The model went live on Friday (September 11) and is now the default “for prompted and reference generation” in ElevenMusic, the company said in a blog post.It landed a day after ElevenLabs announced a multi-year licensing agreement with Universal Music Group – a deal the company says is separate from the new model.
Source: ElevenLabs launched Music v2.5 – shortly after announcing its UMG licensing deal
Samsung has asked a federal judge to throw out Dua Lipa’s lawsuit over the use of her photograph on television packaging. The brief sets out four grounds. The first is that Lipa cannot sue for trademark infringement over a picture of her own face. Lipa sued Samsung on May 8, seeking at least USD $15 million in damages over an image she owns that was printed on the cardboard boxes of TVs sold across the US.
Universal Music Group sued the distribution service DistroKid on Tuesday, claiming in a federal lawsuit that the service infringed on the label’s copyright by pumping out “AI-generated ‘slop’ that siphons revenue and listeners from the legitimate artists and rightsholders.” UMG and its Capitol Records imprint claimed DistroKid improperly presented itself as a music distributor dedicated solely to serving artist-created work to distribution platforms such as Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube and more.
Meta previously argued that uploading pirated books to other BitTorrent users was an unavoidable side effect of downloading them, and therefore fair use. Rightsholders suing Meta in three related cases tried to dismantle this theory by asking OpenAI and Anthropic to reveal how they torrented shadow library data. A magistrate judge denied the request, but that’s not the end of the torrenting dispute.
A federal judge has thrown out the copyright claims at the center of Wixen Music Publishing‘s lawsuit against Meta Platforms. Judge John F. Walter ruled that Wixen has not shown it holds the rights that would let it sue over the 681 works it says Meta used without a license across Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The ruling knocks out both of Wixen‘s copyright claims: direct infringement by Meta and contributory infringement for what Meta‘s users did with the music.
In the filing, submitted to a New York federal court on Friday (September 4), the union says those deals let recordings made by its members be “fed into AI systems for commercial exploitation.” The musicians have not been paid for that use, the AFM says. Warner settled with Udio in November 2025, then days later became the first major to settle with Suno.
The AI music generation company has revealed details about its suite of new models, all built on its licensing deals with Warner Music Group, BMG and Believe. Dubbed “V6,” the company said the collection of technology represented its most powerful models yet, with its use incorporating revenue sharing for artists and their labels. The approach kickstarts a new era that it believes will “make a bigger music industry,” according to chief product officer Jack Brody.
The agreement, announced on Tuesday (September 8), covers “participating repertoire” from Believe and TuneCore, its platform for self-releasing artists. “Under the agreement, music from participating Believe and TuneCore artists and labels will be included in the new music models that Suno is launching in partnership with the music industry,” the two companies said. According to the announcement, Believe and TuneCore artists and labels “can choose to opt in to new, licensed music products that the companies will create together.”
In a class action case filed by the Authors Guild and its co-plaintiff authors against OpenAI and Microsoft, all parties have filed motions for summary judgment. The plaintiffs argue that “OpenAI built the foundations of its business on mass piracy,” which included reproducing and then deleting book content found on the pirate site Library Genesis, aka LibGen. Plaintiffs note that courts have “consistently held that obtaining ‘for free’ something one would ‘ordinarily have to buy’ is not fair use.”
Book authors have asked a New York federal judge to rule that OpenAI built its AI models on “mass piracy”. Pointing to internal documents, a summary judgment motion alleges the AI giant downloaded books from LibGen, hid the evidence by renaming datasets, and designed its models to supplant human writers. OpenAI filed the mirror-image motion, stressing that its data harvesting qualifies as fair use.