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

Canonical page: https://technooptimist.io/stories/universal-music-settles-with-udio-and-licenses-it-to-build-an-ai-music-c8ab311c
Date: 29 Oct 2025
About: [Udio](https://technooptimist.io/companies/udio.md) · [Udio licensed platform](https://technooptimist.io/ai/udio-licensed-platform.md)
Original source: https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/universal-music-settles-udio-lawsuit-strikes-deal-for-licensed-ai-music-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.

## Key facts

- 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.

---

The Techno Optimist tracks every frontier of technology, program by program: https://technooptimist.io/ (a Markdown version of any page: add .md to its URL; site map for agents: https://technooptimist.io/llms.txt).
Data API (JSON, realtime stream): https://technooptimist.io/developers. People read 5 pages free, then Reader $10/month; these Markdown pages are open to agents.