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Universal Music and ElevenLabs Just Made AI Remixing Legal and That Changes Everything
Universal Music Group and ElevenLabs announced this week that they are launching a joint AI music platform that will let users create remixes, mashups, and entirely new takes on tracks from UMG's catalogue, with proper licensing in place. This is not a small thing. Universal Music Group represents around a third of the recorded music market globally. Its catalogue includes artists from Taylor Swift to The Beatles to Billie Eilish. Building a licensed AI creative tool on top of that library is a genuinely different proposition from the scrape-first-license-later approach that has defined much of the AI creative industry so far.
Key Takeaways
- Universal Music Group represents approximately one third of the global recorded music market
- The platform will use ElevenLabs' audio AI to enable licensed remixing and mashups from UMG's catalogue
- UMG was one of the most litigious labels against unlicensed AI music training in 2024 and 2025
- No specific launch date has been announced for the platform
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