Spotify partners with Universal Music Group for paid AI remix and cover generation tool

Spotify and Universal Music Group have signed a licensing deal enabling Premium subscribers to create AI-generated remixes and covers of streaming songs as a paid add-on, The Verge reported. Artists can opt out of the program, while participating artists will earn royalties from the AI remixes, according to The Verge. Rolling Stone noted the deal reflects a broader strategy by major record labels to embrace and monetize AI-generated music rather than fight it, by offering controlled versions of the technology to generate additional royalties from their catalogs.

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