Music Business Worldwide’s weekly round-up highlights a series of music-industry moves centred on artificial intelligence, licensing and intellectual-property enforcement. The most significant development was Suno’s global licensing framework with BMG, while Spotify expanded agreements for AI-powered fan-made covers and remixes and introduced measures to identify AI-generated artist personas.

Suno’s BMG deal covers recorded music and publishing repertoire, offers opt-in participation for artists and songwriters, and settles previous use of BMG works. Spotify’s Kobalt agreement follows earlier deals with Universal Music Group and Merlin, while Suno will cap Pro users at 20 downloads a month from 3 September; separately, Live Nation’s Merch Traffic sued anonymous online sellers over alleged counterfeit merchandise including Nirvana and Bruno Mars products.