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(Reuters) -Warner Music Group has settled a copyright infringement case with artificial intelligence company Udio and will jointly launch a new platform for AI song creation, the companies said on Wednesday. Warner's deal follows a similar settlement last month between rival Universal Music Group and Udio, which resolved a lawsuit accusing the startup of using copyrighted recordings without permission to train its models, at a time when a surge in AI-generated tracks has increased pressure on the industry to clearly label such content. For record labels, such agreements with AI developers present an opportunity to expand revenue sources, diminish litigation costs, and utilize sophisticated AI instruments for accelerated song development. Under Warner's agreement with Udio, the companies plan to roll out a music-generation platform in 2026 that will be trained on and offer output based on licensed and authorized recordings. (Reporting by Jaspreet Singh in Bengaluru; Editing by Tasim Zahid)

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(Reuters) -Warner Music Group has settled a copyright infringement case with artificial intelligence company Udio and will jointly launch a new platform for AI song creation, the companies said on Wednesday. Warner's deal follows a similar settlement last month between rival Universal Music Group and Udio, which resolved a lawsuit accusing the startup of using copyrighted recordings without permission to train its models, at a time when a surge in AI-generated tracks has increased pressure on the industry to clearly label such content. For record labels, such agreements with AI developers present an opportunity to expand revenue sources, diminish litigation costs, and utilize sophisticated AI instruments for accelerated song development. Under Warner's agreement with Udio, the companies plan to roll out a music-generation platform in 2026 that will be trained on and offer output based on licensed and authorized recordings. (Reporting by Jaspreet Singh in Bengaluru; Editing by Tasim Zahid)

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(Reuters) -Warner Music Group has settled a copyright infringement case with artificial intelligence company Udio and will jointly launch a new platform for AI song creation, the companies said on Wednesday. Warner's deal follows a similar settlement last month between rival Universal Music Group and Udio, which resolved a lawsuit accusing the startup of using copyrighted recordings without permission to train its models, at a time when a surge in AI-generated tracks has increased pressure on the industry to clearly label such content. For record labels, such agreements with AI developers present an opportunity to expand revenue sources, diminish litigation costs, and utilize sophisticated AI instruments for accelerated song development. Under Warner's agreement with Udio, the companies plan to roll out a music-generation platform in 2026 that will be trained on and offer output based on licensed and authorized recordings. (Reporting by Jaspreet Singh in Bengaluru; Editing by Tasim Zahid)

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LONDON (Reuters) -Britain said on Wednesday it would ban the resale of tickets to concerts, sport and other live events for profit, disrupting ticket touts and the platforms that benefit from their activities. Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy said touts were ripping off fans by using bots to snap up batches of tickets for coveted shows and reselling them at sky-high prices. "Our new proposals will shut down the touts' racket and make world-class music, comedy, theatre and sport affordable for everyone," she said, after the government had promised action. Tickets for tours by Harry Styles, Taylor Swift, Oasis and others have been offered on resale sites for hugely inflated prices minutes after they sell out. Touts use sophisticated automated "bots" to beat online queues, the government said. Shares in U.S. company StubHub, the owner of resale site Viagogo, fell 14% on Monday after the plan was reported. The government had consulted on setting a cap of up to 30% above face value for the resale of tickets. But it said on Wednesday that resales above face value – defined as original ticket price plus unavoidable fees – would be illegal. Service fees charged by platforms will also be capped to prevent the ban being undermined, it said. The new rules will apply to any platform reselling tickets to UK fans, including secondary ticketing platforms and social media websites, it said. Businesses who break the regulations could face financial penalties of up to 10% of global turnover. Viagogo said on Tuesday that processes to verify tickets would be a more effective way to stop illegal activity. "Evidence shows price caps have repeatedly failed fans. In countries like Ireland and Australia, fraud rates are nearly four times higher than in the UK as price caps push consumers towards unregulated sites," a Viagogo spokesperson said. "Opening the market to greater competition also helps drive prices down, benefiting fans." (Reporting by Paul Sandle;Editing by Alison Williams)

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LONDON (Reuters) -Britain said on Wednesday it would ban the resale of tickets to concerts, sport and other live events for profit, disrupting ticket touts and the platforms that benefit from their activities. Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy said touts were ripping off fans by using bots to snap up batches of tickets for coveted shows and reselling them at sky-high prices. "Our new proposals will shut down the touts' racket and make world-class music, comedy, theatre and sport affordable for everyone," she said, after the government had promised action. Tickets for tours by Harry Styles, Taylor Swift, Oasis and others have been offered on resale sites for hugely inflated prices minutes after they sell out. Touts use sophisticated automated "bots" to beat online queues, the government said. Shares in U.S. company StubHub, the owner of resale site Viagogo, fell 14% on Monday after the plan was reported. The government had consulted on setting a cap of up to 30% above face value for the resale of tickets. But it said on Wednesday that resales above face value – defined as original ticket price plus unavoidable fees – would be illegal. Service fees charged by platforms will also be capped to prevent the ban being undermined, it said. The new rules will apply to any platform reselling tickets to UK fans, including secondary ticketing platforms and social media websites, it said. Businesses who break the regulations could face financial penalties of up to 10% of global turnover. Viagogo said on Tuesday that processes to verify tickets would be a more effective way to stop illegal activity. "Evidence shows price caps have repeatedly failed fans. In countries like Ireland and Australia, fraud rates are nearly four times higher than in the UK as price caps push consumers towards unregulated sites," a Viagogo spokesperson said. "Opening the market to greater competition also helps drive prices down, benefiting fans." (Reporting by Paul Sandle;Editing by Alison Williams)

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By Manuel Ausloos PARIS (Reuters) -What might have been Moliere's next play if the 17th-century French playwright had not died after collapsing on stage while performing "The Imaginary Invalid"? It's a question French scholars, artists and an AI firm teamed up to answer. The result is "L'Astrologue ou les Faux Presages" (The Astrologer or the False Omens), a comedy that will debut next year in the Palace of Versailles, where Louis XIV, Moliere's patron, held court centuries ago. "What we thought was, let's try to recreate a bit of Moliere's creative process using the current state of AI," said Hugo Caselles-Dupre, a researcher in using AI for artistic creation, who was involved in the project. A FRENCH ICON Moliere holds iconic status in France, to the extent that French is sometimes referred to as "the language of Moliere". His plays, characterised by satirical wit and social commentary, are widely taught in French high schools and performed in theatres in the French-speaking world. Despite the patronage of Louis XIV, Moliere lived in hardship for many years and died of exhaustion at the age of 51, leaving his devotees to wonder who would have been his next target. According to the "Moliere Ex Machina" project backed by French artificial intelligence firm Mistral AI, he might have taken aim at astrologers. "We looked for what kind of play (Moliere) might have written. One of the subjects he addressed, but subtly woven into several of his other works, is astrology," Mickael Bouffard, an art historian and director of the play, said. The plot centres on Geronte, a gullible bourgeois who falls prey to a fraudulent astrologer scheming to marry off Geronte's daughter to a deceitful wigmaker, despite her love for another. The AI model was not left to run loose. The production was tweaked by scholars and researchers who corrected historical inaccuracies and other details. But the model offered scholars a deeper understanding of Moliere's craft, more than 350 years after his death. "I have learned things about Moliere that I had missed because they're so scattered throughout his work," Bouffard said. (Reporting by Manuel Ausloo; Writing by Inti Landauro; Editing by Ros Russell)

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