Merlin and Udio sign AI deal

Posted by Isabelle Szczepanski le 20 janvier 2026

Following its agreement with Eleven Labs last summer, Merlin today announced a license with music AI Udio.

The signing of a licensing agreement between Merlin and Udio’s music AI, announced today, is part of a now familiar sequence: rights holders seeking to regulate, rather than suffer, the use of their catalogs by players in generative music AI. But as is often the case, the exact…