Jeremy Rosen

APRA AMCOS says works by artists including Kylie Minogue, Midnight Oil, Crowded House and Lorde have been identified in leaked AI training datasets, reigniting debate over copyright protections and licensing for artificial intelligence platforms.

Rick Beato, the producer, educator and one of YouTube's most influential music commentators, will visit Australia and New Zealand for a series of live shows in October 2026.

APRA AMCOS and SOCAN have issued a joint statement during the visit of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney to Australia, urging governments to ensure songwriters and composers are protected as Artificial Intelligence reshapes the global creative economy.

Spotify has confirmed that a third party unlawfully scraped large volumes of music data from its platform, after an activist group claimed it had backed up almost the entire Spotify catalogue. The incident centres on Anna's Archive, an open source “shadow library” project, which says it has assembled metadata for 256 million tracks and accessed 86 million audio files spanning music uploaded between 2007 and 2025.

Nick Cave has admitted his view of artificial intelligence as an artistic tool has begun to shift.

Icehouse have taken to Artificial Intelligence to clean up their music videos starting with the songs from the first album as Flowers.