Repost of article by Murray Stassen Music Business Worldwide/ 27-02-2026 Last week, Nikkei Asia reported that researchers at Sony Group were working on technology to identify copyrighted music embedded in AI-generated tracks. The story was widely picked up, with coverage framing the development as a kind of next-generation detection tool that could help songwriters claim compensation from AI developers. But the broader underlying research by the team at Sony AI appears to go

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