Full Press Coverage

• New York Post — Michael Ovitz’s Next Act: Fighting IP Theft with AI and Hollywood Dealmaking

• New York Post (YouTube) — AI Is Stealing Music — And These Industry Giants Are Fighting Back!

• CNBC (Interview) — Neural Fingerprinting Makes Media Identifiable Even When Distorted by AI: SoundPatrol Co-Founders

• The Wall Street Journal — Universal Music Settles with AI Firm Udio

• Dealbook – The New York Times — Exclusive: Using A.I. to Catch A.I. Song Copyright Abuse

• Billboard — UMG & Sony Endorse SoundPatrol’s ‘Neural Fingerprinting’ Tech to Help Curb AI-Driven Theft

• HITS Daily Double — SoundPatrol Brings Fingerprint Tech to Sony, Universal

• Music Business Worldwide — Sir Lucian Grainge on UMG’s AI Policy: “We Will NOT License AI Models That Use an Artist’s Voice Without Consent.”

• Billboard — UMG CEO Lucian Grainge Outlines Company’s AI Strategy in New Memo: ‘Enormous Potential’

• Music Week — UMG’s Sir Lucian Grainge Outlines Potential for ‘Dramatic Expansion’ of Responsible AI and Music

• Music Ally — UMG Boss Sir Lucian Grainge Talks AI (Full Internal Memo)

• Hypebot — UMG AI Strategy Shifts from Reaction to Innovation

• Digital Music News — UMG’s CEO Lays It All Out on AI Negotiations — ‘Nearly a Dozen’ Deals Under Way

• Digital Music News — UMG, Sony Music Sign Major AI Copyright Detection and Fingerprinting Alliance

• Music Week — UMG & Sony Work with AI Research Lab SoundPatrol to Protect Artists from Copyright Infringement

• Forbes — When Machines Police Machines: How Neural Fingerprinting Detects AI Music Infringement

• Music Business Worldwide — Weekly Round-Up — Spotify & SoundPatrol

• Music Ally — AI Music Round-Up: SoundPatrol, Suno Studio, SGAE Study, UK Concerns

• audioXpress — Universal Music Group and Sony Music Support SoundPatrol Neural Fingerprinting Research

• Archyde — Universal and Sony Music Launch Innovative AI Music Copyright Detection Platform Using Neuronal Fingerprint Technology

• A Journal of Musical Things — Companies Are Getting Serious About Flushing Out Musical AI Slop

• AI Music Newsletter (Substack) — Spotify Has New AI Safeguards; SoundPatrol to Detect AI Copyright Theft

• Archyworldys — STIM & Sureel AI: Music Rights & Attribution Tracking

• RouteNote Blog — Can We Finally Detect Copyrighted Works in AI Music? UMG and Sony Join Forces with SoundPatrol

• Platform & Stream (Substack) — YouTube Takes on Spotify’s AI DJ; How Do We Fix Music Data?

• B2B Daily — Trend Analysis: AI Music Copyright Detection

• Startuphub.ai — Neural Fingerprinting: Hollywood’s New Defense Against AI Copyright Infringement

• The Batch — Issue 326 — AI in Music and Media Provenance

• CoinCentral — Suno Targets $2B Valuation as AI Music Boom Accelerates

• ALM Media — As Plaintiffs Lawyers Embrace AI to Identify Claims, Is IP the Next Goldmine?

• Simply Wall St — Does UMG’s AI Remix Deal With Udio Signal a New Era for Licensing? (ENXTAM: UMG)

• npr – New licensing deal highlights the growing trend of media giants embracing AI

Global Coverage

• Zimbalam (France) — Universal and Sony Music Partner on New Platform to Detect AI Music Copyright Theft Using Revolutionary Neural Fingerprinting Technology

• Zimbalam (France) — Sir Lucian Grainge on UMG’s AI Policy: “We Will NOT License AI Models That Use an Artist’s Voice Without Consent.”

• Tech In Asia — OpenAI Said to Develop AI Tool for Music from Text, Audio

• MusikWoche (Germany) — Major Labels Want to Add SoundPatrol’s Anti-AI Fingerprint to Songs

• Industria Musical (Spain) — Sony Music and Universal Join Forces to Detect Intellectual Property Theft in AI-Generated Music

• Musicman.co.jp (Japan) — Universal and Sony Collaborate with Research Institute to Detect Music Piracy Using AI

• Avopolis (Greece) — Neural Fingerprinting: Record Labels Find a New Weapon to Save Music from AI

• Digital Day (Italy) — Sony Music and Universal Music Use Neural Watermarking to Detect AI Plagiarism

• Hardware Upgrade (Italy) — Sony and Universal Will Fight AI with AI: Deal Signed with SoundPatrol

• Bintmusic.it (Italy) — SoundPatrol: Human vs. Musical AI

• Agenda Digitale (Italy) — Streaming, Anti-AI Crackdown: Major Labels and Platforms Join Forces

• Viet Press (Vietnam) — Universal and Sony Music Use Digital Fingerprint Technology to Track AI Copyright Infringement

• Gaffa (Denmark) — Sony and Universal Take on AI in New Collaboration

• Diario Mendoza (Argentina) — Record Labels Join Forces to Curb AI-Generated Music

• Ambito (Argentina) — The Downside of Artificial Intelligence: The Music Industry Unites to Curb Copyright Infringement

• 36Kr (China) — Spotify Removes 75 Million Songs as It Tackles AI-Generated Junk

• Musikindustrin (Sweden) — Notices – Week 40, 2025

• Archyde (France) — Universal and Sony Music Launch Innovative AI Music Copyright Detection Platform Using Neuronal Fingerprint Technology

• Billboard Colombia — Why Did Universal Music Group and Sony Music Target SoundPatrol?

• T3n Digital Pioneers (Germany) — AI Music with Licensed Songs: How the World’s Biggest Record Labels Are Fighting Back

• Borsa Italiana (Italy) — Universal Music Rises 2.7%, Boosted by AI Partnership and Market Data

• Hardware Upgrade (Italy) — Universal Music Group and Udio Make Peace and Join Forces on AI-Generated Music

• Ambito (Argentina) — The Downside of Artificial Intelligence: The Music Industry Unites to Curb Copyright Infringement

• Agenda Digitale (Italy) — Streaming, Anti-AI Crackdown: Major Labels and Platforms Join Forces