According to published reports,
Warner Music Group has renewed a multi-year licensing agreement with
Meta, covering the latter's
Facebook,
Instagram,
Messenger,
Horizon,
Threads and, for the first time,
WhatsApp.
It follows a recent
expansion of Meta's licensing deal with UMG
to include WhatsApp.
The Warner/Meta partnership also aims to address the safe use of generative AI, which WMG CEO
Robert Kyncl (pictured) has made a priority this year.
The exec testified to the
House Judiciary Committee on the subject in April, and in July, Warner Records joined
Sony Music Entertainment and
Universal Music Group in
RIAA-filed copyright-infringement lawsuits against music companies
Suno and
Udio over their unlicensed use of copyrighted sound recordings to train their generative AI models.
