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How to copyright your music in the U.S. (and why it actually matters)
You own your song the second you record it — but registering it is what lets you enforce it. Here's how to file with the U.S. Copyright Office, what it costs, and the mistakes producers keep making.

The Atlantic just named the four datasets training the AI music boom
Millions of copyrighted recordings — Taylor Swift, Bad Bunny, the whole canon — are circulating among AI developers in four specific datasets. Here is what that means for the lawsuits already in motion.

The AI music reckoning hits a new phase: a session-musicians' union sues the majors, France weighs flipping the burden of proof, and the unsealing of Suno and Udio's "training number"
The American Federation of Musicians is suing UMG and Warner over their Suno and Udio settlements. A federal judge has unsealed Udio's training data. 227 rights organizations are pressing France to legally presume AI firms trained on their work. And Deezer says 70% of "unofficial" 2026 World Cup anthems on its platform are AI. The fight over generative music just got a lot more concrete.