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Milk & Honey’s Lucas Keller and THE•TEAM’s Marty Diamond to receive MUSEXPO 2027 awards
Both honors will be handed over in Burbank, California, during the 27th global edition of MUSEXPO, which runs March 21–24, 2027 Source...

Warner Music Group to open tech hub in Bengaluru, led by Mahesh Rao
Warner Music Group CTO Leho Nigul said Bengaluru is central to the company's global engineering strategy. Source...

Alibaba launches AI song generator HappyShrimp 1.0 in beta, with China’s Taihe Music signed up for artist co-creation
Prompts can specify instrumentation, vocal style and the way a track's energy shifts across its running time, Alibaba said. Source...

Ellie Goulding sues former managers over Live Nation ownership of TaP company
The claim names TaP Management co-founders Ben Mawson and Ed Millett, alongside TaP's parent company, HNOE Limited. Source...

Round Hill is suing Suno and Anthropic for up to $1B apiece. It isn’t looking to settle.
Each complaint seeks statutory damages of up to USD $150,000 per work willfully infringed. Source...

Done deal: Jamen Capital and Merlin complete acquisition of Curve Royalty Systems from Virgin Music Group
The deal closed following final approval of the transaction by the European Commission, the companies said on Tuesday (August 18). Source...

Robert Kyncl justifies Suno deal, as UMG and Sony press on with lawsuit: ‘In my opinion, you embrace it.’
Kyncl appeared on Semafor's Mixed Signals podcast on Friday (August 14), where he discussed Suno – and why he'd start a music service at Netflix. Source...

Live Nation settles lawsuit over injury at Luke Bryan concert
A concertgoer sued Live Nation in 2024, alleging he suffered a traumatic brain injury during a Luke Bryan show at a US amphitheater the company operates. Source...

5 things to know about Suno’s BMG licensing deal, download caps, watermarks, and more
The BMG deal supplies the rights; the caps and the watermarks supply the controls. The other two are new exits: one professional, one physical. Source...

Jamendo drops its copyright infringement lawsuit against Suno, six weeks after filing it
The withdrawal arrives as Suno rewrites the rules of its platform, saying it will adopt audio watermarking and fingerprinting technology in the coming weeks. Source...