Universal Music settles with Udio and licenses it to build an AI music platform

Udio/Udio licensed platform

Universal Music Group settled its copyright lawsuit against Udio and signed recording and publishing licences. The two plan a subscription platform for 2026 where users customise, stream and share music in a licensed environment. Until then Udio's current app stays up, with creations kept inside a walled garden.

• First settlement between a major label and an AI song generator.
• Udio will add fingerprinting and filtering before relaunch.
• The other majors were still pursuing claims against Suno at the time.
• Labels had also accused Udio of scraping YouTube videos for training; Udio moved to dismiss.