By skyforbes Universal Music Group (UMG) and Udio announced a settlement of their copyright infringement lawsuit, and a strategic partnership to create a new licensed AI music platform. The deal includes a compensatory legal settlement, plus new licensing agreements for both recorded music and publishing.
Starting immediately on October 29th, downloads from the UDIO platform became unavailable. Users can no longer export works made within Udio's platform—instead, users can only listen to their creations within the service.
Udio's existing product will remain available during a transition period "with creations controlled within a walled garden and the service amended in multiple ways—including fingerprinting, filtering, and other measures—before the launch of the updated service"
It doesn't even matter to most of us that we'll be able to "use UMG artist voices!" because most of us were making OUR OWN songs, and will be gone after today.