Gracenote, the Nielsen-owned metadata and identification services company, has filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York a lawsuit against AI company OpenAI for copyright infringement. Gracenote is suing OpenAI for reportedly using its metadata without authorisation or compensation to train OpenAI's ChatGPT and other large models (LLMs), and for "copying the relational framework it uses to connect its metadata." “Being pro-AI and anti-theft aren’t contradictory; they a...

Rights management platform MusicInfra has sealed a strategic partnership with independent US music publisher The Royalty Network, focused on pairing rights holder metadata with scaled industry-wide metadata “to ensure maximum revenue collection for songwriters.”   Through the partnership, MusicInfra will pair its proprietary backend technological infrastructure and its team’s experience in building and handling YouTube’s Content Management System with The Royalty Network’s catalogue of over 800,...

Financing platform Pipeline Advance Co. has acquired the core assets and intellectual property of valuation company Clarty Partners, bringing Clarty’s proprietary valuation technology, royalty ingestion systems, and analytical infrastructure into Pipeline’s system. The deal, the terms of which were not disclosed, excludes “any proprietary client data or confidential information relating to Clarty’s past projects.” Pipeline said the new acquisition will “significantly enhancing its underwriting a...