{"id":970680,"date":"2025-10-31T08:11:05","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T02:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=970680"},"modified":"2025-10-31T08:11:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T02:41:55","slug":"universal-says-struck-first-licensing-deal-for-ai-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/31\/universal-says-struck-first-licensing-deal-for-ai-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Universal says struck first licensing deal for AI music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recording industry giant Universal Music Group said Thursday it had struck a licensing deal with AI music generation startup Udio, in an industry-first tie-up aiming to launch an AI creation platform next year.<\/p>\n<p>Universal and Udio said in a statement that their platform, as yet unnamed, &#8220;will be powered by new cutting-edge generative AI technology that will be trained on authorized and licensed music&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>They added that they had settled an outstanding copyright infringement case, without specifying the financial terms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recording industry giant Universal Music Group said Thursday it had struck a licensing deal with AI music generation startup Udio, in an industry-first tie-up aiming to launch an AI creation platform next year. Universal and Udio said in a statement that their platform, as yet unnamed, &#8220;will be powered by new cutting-edge generative AI technology that will be trained on authorized and licensed music&#8221;. They added that they had settled an outstanding copyright infringement case, without specifying the financial terms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-970680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=970680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=970680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=970680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=970680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}