This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. By Niall McCracken BBC News NI “Our orchestra shows how the two communities can come together through music.” The passion of 15-year-old Cara is written all over her face as she takes her handmade violin from its…

Universal Music has sued Anthropic, the AI startup, over “systematic and widespread infringement of their copyrighted song lyrics,” per a filing Wednesday in a Tennessee federal court. Anthropic, the $4.1 billion startup behind Claude the chatbot, was founded in 2021 by former OpenAI research executives. Other music publishers, such as Concord and ABKCO, were also…

Universal Music Publishing Group, Concord, and Abkco have sued an Amazon-backed artificial intelligence company over alleged copyright infringement of the three publishers’ songs, according to a lawsuit reviewed by Rolling Stone.  The companies have filed a suit against Anthropic, an AI startup company founded by four former OpenAI employees in 2021 that had just last…

Jason Aldean is continuing to defend his controversial song “Try That in a Small Town,” which has been accused of promoting gun violence and racism in its lyrics and music video. The country music artist, 46, appeared on the Wednesday episode of the Audacy podcast Coop’s Rockin’ Country Saturday Night and reflected on the viral…

SHELLEY — An 18-year-old Shelley High School senior who recently attended a songwriting camp in the Songwriting Capital of the World has returned with a heightened love for his craft and a unique opportunity. Cole Fryar said he learned a new set of skills while at the Song House music camp. Skills that he will…

SAN ANTONIO – The Tejano Music Awards is rescinding a lifetime achievement award from the co-founder of the popular band Grupo Mazz, Jose “Joe” Lopez, according to the Texas Talent Musicians Association. Frank Salazar, vice president of the Texas Talent Musicians Association, said the decision was made Wednesday morning because of public backlash. “We decided…

Companies Anthropic Follow Alphabet Inc Follow Amazon.com Inc Follow Show more companies Oct 18 (Reuters) – Music publishers Universal Music (UMG.AS), ABKCO and Concord Publishing sued artificial intelligence company Anthropic in Tennessee federal court on Wednesday, accusing it of misusing an “innumerable” amount of copyrighted song lyrics to train its chatbot Claude. The lawsuit said…

SAN ANTONIO — The Tejano Music Awards are walking back a controversial decision. On Wednesday, they announced they will no longer be presenting a Lifetime Achievement Award to Joe Lopez, a convicted sex offender. “We’ve heard your, your outreach, we heard your concerns, and you know, and we listened, so, we took action,” Executive Director…

Some musicals do wonderfully well simply due to the first two syllables in the word. The music driving “Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of The Temptations,“ which opened Tuesday, Oct. 17 on the Segerstrom Center stage, is cause for celebration and attendance. The dozens of pop hits by the Temptations, Motown’s most successful…