2026 MARCH 2026 – March 2-4: Women in Music Global Summit in Toronto, Canada at the Allied Music Centre and TD Music Hall. – March 12-18: South by South West in Austin, Texas.

– March 22-25: MUSEXPO, known as “The United Nations of Music”, will return for its 26th global edition in Burbank, California. – March 2-25: Winter Music Conference (WMC) in Miami Beach, Florida, as part of Miami Music Week. APRIL 2026 – April 9-10: Tallinn Music Week in Est...

“We’ve identified industrial-scale distillation attacks on our models by DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax. These labs created over 24,000 fraudulent accounts and generated over 16 million exchanges with Claude, extracting its capabilities to train and improve their own models. Distillation can be legitimate: AI labs use it to create smaller, cheaper models for their customers. But foreign labs that illicitly distill American models can remove safeguards, feeding model capabilities into their o...

These are some of the main stories published by Creative Industries News in the past week: COPYRIGHT & REGULATION> WIN calls for regulators worldwide to ‘remain vigilant’ about the risks of over-consolidation in the music market> US Copyright Office launches GR2D, a new online group registration option for published, two-dimensional artworks LITIGATION> New York District Judge rejects parts of Live Nation’s motion for summary judgment in antitrust case brought by US g...