AI Licensing, Kennedy Center Turmoil, and Mozart Statue Theft

BMG has taken the lead as the first significant rights holder to grant its catalog to the AI music firm Suno, following Warner's precedent, marking a transition from discussing AI's access to music to the financial terms of such usage. At the Edinburgh Fringe, comedians are exploring AI as both a source of material and a performance partner, assessing its humor potential. A writer from Mother Jones engaged Anthropic's Claude to create a novel, examining what this process indicates about the nature of authorship. Meanwhile, the Kennedy Center board in Washington decided to reinstate Trump's name on the building, along with an inscription attributing unfulfilled renovation work to him. The Washington Post has reported that the National Symphony Orchestra is experiencing a funding crisis, with donations falling 25 percent short of projections. In Salzburg, an unusual situation has arisen as two-thirds of a 320-figure Mozart installation has vanished.