Suno v6 licensed music was the story every headline told on 9 September 2026. Engadget: “Suno trained its v6 AI music models with help from Warner and BMG.” TechCrunch: “Suno replaces its AI models with a new one trained on licensed music as copyright suits pile up.” Reuters, Billboard, Variety and The Hollywood Reporter ran […]
Fair use is the two-word doctrine that decides whether the American AI industry ever has to pay for the books, articles and songs it learns from, and on Tuesday 1 September 2026 the United States government told a Manhattan federal court exactly which way it wants that question answered. In a 20-page statement of interest, […]
Is it legal to train AI models on copyrighted books? Courts say it’s complicated. This guide walks through the $1.5 billion Anthropic settlement and its 91% claim rate, the fair use four-factor test, the scoreboard of rulings from Bartz v. Anthropic to Kadrey v. Meta and Thomson Reuters v. Ross, why the UK’s March 2026 report kept the status quo after Getty’s hollow High Court win, what the US Copyright Office’s Part 3 report concluded before its author was fired and reinstated, and the practical questions every business using or building AI should be asking about indemnities, provenance and output ownership.
Text-to-video startup Pippa pays illustrators $0.005 per image and $0.003 per second of video, plus a 5% share of subscription revenue. It is the clearest test yet of whether compensation alone can bring artists over to generative AI, or whether consent, credit and stylistic control were always the bigger obstacles.
