The all-indie roster of plaintiffs include those who have also sued AI music generators Udio and Suno in October.

Google is facing an AI music lawsuit by artists who say the tech giant's Lyria 3 model illegally trained on unlicensed songs pulled from YouTube.

Google continues to turn the screws on free YouTube users, expanding a test that restricts access to song lyrics on YouTube Music. Users without a premium subscription have found that Google’s ...

Google is cracking down on more ads for YouTube's TV app, so a YouTube Premium subscription could become essential.

YouTube says two new features - background play and video downloads will be coming to its Premium Lite plan benefits in the next few weeks.

YouTube Music has reportedly started nudging its free listeners toward a paid subscription by, you guessed it, limiting access to full song lyrics. Free users seemed to be capped at five complete song ...

Google seems to be quietly moving YouTube Music lyrics behind a paywall for more users, turning a basic app feature into a Premium-only perk. Free users now get just five lyric views before the rest ...

Independent musicians have sued Google, alleging its AI music tools were trained on copyrighted songs without permission or compensation.

YouTube Premium vs. YouTube Premium Lite: Are the upgrades worth the $6 difference?

Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Apple Inc. are adding music-focused generative artificial intelligence features to their core consumer apps, underscoring how advanced AI tools are moving into mainstream ...

Blake has over a decade of experience writing for the web, with a focus on mobile phones, where he covered the smartphone boom of the 2010s and the broader tech scene. When he's not in front of a ...

If you ask YouTube users the most annoying part of their viewing experience, the majority would probably say the adverts. Ads pop up at the start, during, and after videos on the Google-owned platform ...