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The music industry’s next major battle over artificial intelligence is underway. Sony Music Publishing, Warner Chappell Music, and 33 affiliated music publishers have sued Anthropic, alleging that the company used pirated lyrics, sheet music, and other copyrighted musical works to build and operate its Claude AI models. The case could help determine whether AI companies can treat creative work as raw material for model training or whether they must license it, credit it, and

Dolly Parton died on Tuesday, August 25, 2026, at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center in Nashville, surrounded by loved ones. She was 80 years old, and her publicist, Marcel Pariseau, said the cause was a brief battle with cancer, a diagnosis that had never been made public. Within hours, the mourning became a measurable event in the music business: streams of her catalog jumped more than 2,000 percent, and on the day she died, she was the second-most-streamed artist in the U

If you've seen headlines this month claiming Spotify deleted 75 million AI songs, the real story is both bigger and more nuanced than that number suggests. Spotify isn't banning AI music, it's running one of the most aggressive anti-fraud campaigns streaming has ever seen, and the target is spam, not creativity. The Headline On July 23, 2026, Spotify confirmed to the Los Angeles Times and Rolling Stone that it has removed more than 75 million AI-generated tracks over the tra