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Making a Scene Presents - The AI Copyright Fight Will Be Won by Whoever Has the Best Records

Sony’s New Lawsuit Comes With a Very Long Song List

Sony Music Entertainment filed another federal lawsuit against AI music company Udio on July 20, 2026. This time, Sony’s complaint concerns more than 30,000 sound recordings that it claims were copied and used in connection with Udio’s generative AI models without permission.

That is an enormous number of recordings. It is large enough to make the average independent artist stare at their own hard drive, notice three folders named “Old Masters,” and quietly close the laptop.

Sony had previously attempted to add 30,442 recordings to the lawsuit it originally brought against Udio in 2024. On July 2, 2026, U.S. District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein denied that request, leaving the earlier case focused on 333 works that remained in the original action. Sony responded by filing a separate lawsuit covering the additional recordings.

Sony says it found the additional works after gaining access to information about Udio’s training data during legal discovery. According to Sony’s allegations, it then used audio-fingerprinting technology to compare that information with recordings in its catalog.

Those words matter: according to Sony’s allegations.

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Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Leeann Atherton

Leeann Atherton is a country, gospel, and blues singer-songwriter based in Austin, Texas, with a voice shaped by the South, the road, and a lifetime of hard-earned musical instinct. Her sound carries the grit of the blues, the warmth of gospel, and the storytelling heart of country music, delivered with the kind of honesty that cannot be faked.

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Making a Scene Presents Gerry Casey's Interview With Paul Sherry

Paul Sherry is an award-winning Irish guitarist, singer, songwriter, session musician, touring artist, and educator whose music bridges blues-rock tradition with modern rock depth. Best known to many listeners as the lead guitarist with the award-winning Gráinne Duffy Band, Sherry has also carved out his own identity as a solo artist, bringing together fiery guitar work, soulful vocals, and songs shaped by experience, craft, and intention.

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Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Silver Summer

Silver Summer makes music for the neon hours: the space between last call and sunrise, between memory and possibility, between heartbreak and the reckless feeling that something beautiful might still happen before morning. Blending 1970s glam, disco, and punk with a shimmering wash of 1980s synths, the Mankato, Minnesota band creates a sound that feels both nostalgic and futuristic, like a lost dance-floor anthem beamed in from another timeline.

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Making a Scene Presents - What Sound Actually Is: The Science Every Musician Should Understand

Before the Microphone, Something Has to Move

Every recording begins with movement.

Before the microphone, the preamp, the audio interface, the computer, the waveform, the compressor, and the plugin with the picture of a rusty spaceship, something must vibrate.

A singer pushes air from the lungs past the vocal folds. Those folds open and close rapidly. A guitarist plucks a string, causing it to move back and forth. A drummer strikes a drumhead, which bends inward and springs back. A cymbal flexes in many directions at once. A piano hammer hits a string. A loudspeaker cone moves forward and backward.

That movement pushes and pulls on the air around it.

Air may look like empty space, but it is filled with tiny molecules. When a guitar string moves, it pushes nearby air molecules closer together. Those molecules bump into the next group, which bumps into another group. When the string moves back, it leaves a slightly less crowded area behind it. The result is a traveling pattern of higher and lower pressure.

That traveling pressure pattern is a sound wave.

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