Merlin and Udio sign AI deal
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… content of the agreement remains largely opaque, which is precisely what interests the industry. Training The first key point is model training. Everything indicates that the agreement reached today is indeed a license covering the use of recordings represented by Merlin for the purpose of training Udio’s AI. « Thanks to this collaboration, Udio will develop new AI models trained on Merlin-licensed music from participating…