Independent music publishing and rights management company Kobalt has started a strategic partnership with Udio, the AI-powered music creation platform, which includes the licensing of Kobalt's catalogue through an opt-in process. The two companies said the agreement "forges a path for collaboration on Udio’s licensed AI music creation service," which is expected to launch later this year. Udio’s new platform will be trained on authorised and licensed music. "The new partnership establishes an i...

The News/Media Alliance (NMA), which represents the main news media industry trade association, has signed a partnership with visual generative AI infrastructure Bria allowing NMA members to opt into an AI licensing agreement with the AI-generating content platform. The partnership will also form the foundation for a new Bria product in development designed "to ensure reliable, grounded AI-generated outputs based on participating publishers’ owned content."

For the NMA, which represents aroun...

Swedish composer Alfons Karabuda has joined the board of MusicDataLabs Sweden, the company behind Servo.music, the synch licensing platform created by Max Flach and Greger Hagelin. Karabuda is the Honorary President of the European Composer and Songwriter Alliance (ECSA), Chair of the Polar Music Prize Award Committee, and former President of the International Music Council and music rights society Skap. “As much as I enjoy speaking my mind, words alone have only ever interested me when they lea...