Warner Music Group has struck a licensing deal with the AI music creation platform Suno. Under the agreement, WMG will enable customers to create AI-generated music on Suno utilizing the voices, names, likenesses, photographs, and compositions of artists who choose in to this system.
WMG, which owns file labels which have signed musicians like Ed Sheeran, Twenty One Pilots, Dua Lipa, and Charli XCX, says taking part artists can have “full management” over how their likeness and music are used, although it doesn’t share how.
“These can be new creation experiences from artists who do choose in, which can open up new income streams for them and help you work together with them in new methods,” Suno says, including that customers will be capable of “construct round” an artist’s sounds “and guarantee they get compensated.”
Together with the licensing settlement, Suno is planning to make use of licensed music from WMG to construct next-gen music technology fashions that it claims will surpass its flagship v5 model. It would additionally begin requiring customers to have a paid account to obtain songs beginning subsequent 12 months, with every tier offering a particular variety of downloads every month.