Universal Music Group & its Capitol Records imprint have just sued music distribution platform DistroKid, in a 52-page lawsuit filed at the US District Court in Delaware.
According to their claim, DistroKid actively engaged in leveraging “AI-generated ‘slop’ that siphons revenue and listeners from the legitimate artists and rightsholders.” Apparently, the practices DistroKid is indulging in violate the rules of the Music Fights Fraud Alliance, which the distributor is a part of.
As an example, the lawsuit cited the example ofa “Lofi Chill“ artist that put out a torrential amount of songs: 4,562 tracks in a 12-month period. Aside from this, UMG has also claimed that DistoKid also allows artists to infringe on UMG work by letting artists create remix versions of the songs under the label’s purview.
This is all done without appropriate licenses. So far DistroKid hasn’t issued a response publicly on the matter.
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