AI companies are currently training on artists' catalogs at the expense of music rights holders. The courts are about to ...
"Although the songs and listeners were fake, the millions of dollars Smith stole was real." The post Man Pleads Guilty to ...
Today on Commotion, music industry insiders Michelle Santosuosso and Kevin Amougou join host Elamin Abdelmahmoud to talk ...
From 2017 to 2024, 52-year-old Michael Smith, from Cornelius, North Carolina, and his co-conspirators ran a large-scale fraud scheme that artificially boosted the stream counts of ...
A man had pleaded guilty after using over 1,000 bots to artificially boost streams on AI-generated songs, making him rich in ...
North Carolina musician Michael Smith has pleaded guilty to collecting over $10 million in royalty payments through a massive ...
A North Carolina man has pleaded guilty after federal prosecutors say he used artificial intelligence and bot accounts to generate millions of dollars in fake music streaming royalties. According to ...
A North Carolina man has defrauded music streaming platforms out of $8M in royalties by uploading AI-generated songs and ...