Major record label orders streaming services to stop AI data scraping

By Christopher Hutton

Published April 12, 2023 5:38pm ET

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Major record label orders streaming services to stop AI data scraping — The buttons of the music streaming app Spotify, surrounded by Podcasts, Apple Music, Facebook, and other apps on the screen of an iPhone are shown.

Universal Music Group, one of the largest music distributors in the market, told Spotify and Apple to block artificial intelligence services from scraping its catalogs for data, a legal intervention that could have major ramifications for AI software.

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