https://s3h.com/tags/music-industry/ Recent content in Music Industry on S3H.com Hugo en-us Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://s3h.com/github-sponsors-passes-100-million-as-sony-music-sues-udio-over-30000-songs/ Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://s3h.com/github-sponsors-passes-100-million-as-sony-music-sues-udio-over-30000-songs/ <p>Two stories about compensating the people whose work underlies modern software and AI surfaced the same day, and they represent almost opposite mechanisms for solving the same problem. GitHub says individuals and organizations have invested more than $100 million in open source maintainers and projects through GitHub Sponsors since 2019, with $10 million of that total arriving in just the past five months. Separately, Sony Music has filed a second copyright suit against Udio, alleging the AI music company copied 30,117 recordings without permission to train its models.</p>