In another banner year for music law, 2025 saw industry attorneys wrestle with existential questions about new technology, and some of the world’s biggest artists went to court to protect their work and fight for their reputations.

The advent of artificial intelligence dominated this year across the board, and music law was no exception. The first record deal for an AI-powered artist raised thorny questions about these songs’ intellectual property rights, and some of the major labels reached landmark licensing settlements in their bitter copyright litigation against AI music generators Suno and Udio.

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