The week in generative media · Aug 17 – Aug 24, 2026
The Motion Picture Association and ByteDance have signed a Memorandum of Understanding establishing a shared framework to protect intellectual property in connection with ByteDa...
·
Music rights company Round Hill Music has filed $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuits against AI music generation firms Suno and Anthropic, alleging both companies used cop...
·
Higgsfield AI has launched Higgsfield Academy, a free educational platform that gives filmmakers access to the detailed prompts used to produce its 95-minute AI-generated featur...
Music licensing platform Jamendo has withdrawn its copyright infringement lawsuit against AI music-generation platform Suno, just six weeks after filing it. The dismissal comes ...
·
CGTrader's 2026 market trends report reveals a stark disconnect between AI-generated content supply and buyer demand on its 3D asset marketplace. While AI-generated models now r...
·
Alibaba has released HappyShrimp 1.0, an AI music generation tool currently in public beta. Users can specify instrumentation, vocal style, and how a track's energy shifts over ...
·
Finnish production company Frame Rate Oy has unveiled footagen.ai, a platform designed to take productions from screenplay to edit-ready shots while keeping creative control wit...
·
Award-winning filmmaker James Boyd is taking two generative AI-assisted short films on a Southern California festival run this August and September. His Silver Telly Award-winni...
·
