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Spotify used its Investor Day on Thursday to unveil the most comprehensive AI expansion in the company’s history, repositioning itself from a passive audio consumption platform into an active, AI-powered creation and discovery engine spanning podcasts, audiobooks, and licensed music generation. The centrepiece was Studio by Spotify Labs, a new standalone desktop app launching in […]

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Spotify's AI partnership with Universal Music could reshape industry norms, influencing AI licensing across creative sectors and boosting revenue. The post Spotify partners with Universal Music to enhance AI features and sets ambitious growth targets through 2030 appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

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Spotify and Universal Music Group say their new licensed AI remix platform will let fans create song covers and remixes while compensating participating artists and songwriters.

Licensing agreement will allow listeners to use AI to create content on streaming platform for first time Spotify and Universal Music Group have agreed on a deal that will allow subscribers to generate song covers and remixes using artificial intelligence. The licensing agreement is the first time the Swedish streaming company will allow listeners to use AI to create content through its platform. Continue reading...

Spotify is partnering with Universal Music Group to let Premium subscribers create AI-generated song covers and remixes, with participating artists receiving a share of the revenue.

Spotify and Universal Music Group (UMG) announced a licensing deal that will allow users to prompt the creation of AI-generated remixes and covers for streaming songs. The tool will be a paid add-on for Premium subscribers. Artists will be able to opt out of the program, but those who do participate will collect royalties on these AI remixes. In October of last year, Spotify announced that it was working with UMG, as well as other major labels, Sony Music Group, Warner Music Group, Merlin, and Believe, to create "responsible AI products." At the time, it was unclear exactly what that meant. But this appears to be the first product of that p … Read the full story at The Verge.