MIC Ride Home: FCC Pushes Back on ABC’s Characterization of Probe; Suno Launches Incubator Program for Independent Artists; The World Cup Is Breaking Global Streaming Records

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MIC Ride Home: FCC Pushes Back on ABC’s Characterization of Probe; Suno Launches Incubator Program for Independent Artists; The World Cup Is Breaking Global Streaming Records

US audiences

to date. And the opening game of the United States team attracted 1.1 million streaming

viewers on Tubi alone, turning it into the most streamed English-language match of the team

in World Cup history.

BABA, UMG.AS: Anthropic, fighting lawsuits over alleged copying of song lyrics, accuses

Alibaba of copying Claude to train a rival AI (Music Business Worldwide) - Anthropic has

accused Alibaba of running a campaign to “illicitly” extract the capabilities of its Claude

AI models. The Claude developer says operators affiliated with Alibaba and its Qwen

AI lab generated more than 28.8 million exchanges with Claude through almost 25,000

fraudulent accounts. Anthropic’s letter arrives amid ongoing legal action the AI giant is

facing as a defendant in the music industry’s copyright fight. Universal Music Publishing

Group, Concord, and ABKCO are suing it in two cases, including a January 2026 claim

covering more than 20,000 songs and seeking over $3 billion, and BMG has filed a third.

All allege Anthropic copied song lyrics without a license to train Claude, which the company

is contesting as fair use.

PSKY, WBD, CMCSA: Paramount Inks Multi-Year Licensing Deal For Linear Rights To

‘Harry Potter’ & ‘Fantastic Beasts’ Films (Deadline) - The world of Harry Potter is coming

to Paramount. The company has inked a multi-year licensing deal, making the Paramount

networks the exclusive linear home of the Harry Potter film franchise. Beginning July 3,

MTV, Nickelodeon, Nick At Nite and Paramount Network will begin airing the eight Harry

Potter films and three Fantastic Beasts spinoffs.