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AI companies to music labels: scraping copyrighted tracks on the internet to train algorithms is "fair use"

TechSpot

Suno and Udio were hit with separate copyright infringement lawsuits from music labels Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, and Sony Music Group on June 24. Read Entire Article

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The best music streaming services in 2025

Engadget

Theres no such thing as one best music streaming service. Most of these apps are designed around the same principles and provide access to a huge music catalog. If youve used one to build up a library over the years, that one is most likely to be in tune with your musical tastes.

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Facebook Gaming will now allow partnered streamers to play copyrighted music

The Verge

Today, Facebook Gaming is set to allow its partnered streamers to play copyrighted, popular music in the background of their live stream s — which means they’ve seemingly solved the copyright problem that’s plagued live-streaming (and basically the entire internet) since the beginning.

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Infinite Reality acquires revived music service Napster for $207M

VentureBeat

Infinite Reality, a tech company focused on immersive digital media and ecommerce, has agreed to acquire music brand Napster for $207 million. Read More

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8 Things We Love About Internet Phone Calls (aka VoIP)

TechImpact

Internet phone calls, referred to as Voice over IP (VoIP), are becoming an increasingly popular cloud service due to the low cost, long-term hardware sustainability, increased quality, and wider variety of features, as compared to the copper infrastructure of traditional phone systems. Hold music. Even enable hold music.

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British authors want Meta to answer for alleged copyright infringement

Engadget

Anyone on the internet over the last few weeks has likely seen videos of distraught authors learning that their work is available on the database (and potentially used by Meta without their permission). with 12 songs spelling out, "The British government must not legalise music theft to benefit AI companies."

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Instagram launches ‘Blend’ to share personalized Reels with friends

Fast Company Tech

Blend is most comparable to Spotifys Blend playlistsshared playlists that merge the music tastes of two or more users. But instead of listening to music while hanging out, youre scrolling Reels together. You just have to hope they havent recently fallen into any particularly weird corners of the internet.

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