Spotify and UMG plan to let Premium users create AI covers and remixes using music from participating UMG artists as a paid add-on, without giving a launch date (Jem Aswad/Variety)
Spotify and Universal Music Group announce a licensing framework allowing Premium subscribers to create AI-generated covers and remixes of UMG catalog tracks as a paid add-on, with artists receiving compensation.
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<a href="https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/spotify-universal-music-licensing-agreements-fan-made-covers-1236755951/"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260521/i30.jpg" vspace="4" /></a>
<p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260521/p30#a260521p30" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Jem Aswad / <a href="http://www.variety.com/">Variety</a>:<br />
<span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/spotify-universal-music-licensing-agreements-fan-made-covers-1236755951/">Spotify and UMG plan to let Premium users create AI covers and remixes using music from participating UMG artists as a paid add-on, without giving a launch date</a></b></span> — Spotify and Universal Music Group have announced a major recorded-music and music-publishing licensing agreements … </p>
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