Sources — A Frame for This Project

#The shifting ground

Sony Music files new lawsuit against Udio, asserting 30,117 recordings a judge barred it from adding to its original case

Music Business Worldwide · Jul 20, 2026 — Sony settled with neither Suno nor Udio; Universal settled with Udio, Warner with both

Getty Images v. Stability AI — judgment

English High Court, [2025] EWHC 2863 (Ch), Mrs Justice Joanna Smith · Nov 4, 2025 — Getty abandoned its training claim before closing submissions; permission to appeal the secondary-infringement ruling granted Dec 16, 2025

Delhi High Court rejects ANI’s copyright suit against OpenAI

LiveLaw, on ANI Media v. OpenAI, CS(COMM) 1028/2024, Bansal J. · Jul 24, 2026 — interim order; suit continues

AI Music Tops 50% of Daily Uploads on Deezer (~90,000 tracks/day; up to 85% of streams on those tracks fraudulent)

Deezer Newsroom · Jul 21, 2026 — threshold crossed in June 2026

Canaries in the Coal Mine? Six Facts about the Recent Employment Effects of AI (16% relative employment decline, ages 22–25, most AI-exposed occupations)

Stanford Digital Economy Lab (Brynjolfsson, Chandar & Chen) · Nov 13, 2025 — supersedes the Aug 2025 draft, which said 13%; absolute decline is roughly 6%

UK Illustrators Draw the Line: AOI Publishes AI Survey Results (6,844 respondents; 32.4% have lost work; avg. £9,262 per affected artist; 92.65% cannot opt out)

Association of Illustrators / World Illustration Awards · 2025 — self-published; no methodology or reference period given for the loss figure

Trump Aims to Eliminate the National Endowment for the Humanities

ARTnews · 2025

Corporation for Public Broadcasting Addresses Operations Following Loss of Federal Funding

Corporation for Public Broadcasting · Aug 1, 2025 — ends sixty years of federal support for public broadcasting

Corporation for Public Broadcasting says it’s shutting down

NPR · Aug 1, 2025

#The consumption gap

AI-generated books in the self-publishing market (~20% of Amazon’s self-published fiction catalogue; 12.1% of sales)

Chakrabarty et al., arXiv · Jul 22, 2026

AI-generated music on streaming platforms (5.1% of Spotify’s catalogue; 1.2% of its recommendation graph)

Wu et al., arXiv · Jun 16, 2026

AI Music Tops 50% of Daily Uploads on Deezer (AI tracks are 1–3% of total streams)

Deezer Newsroom · Jul 21, 2026 — the share-of-streams figure is the denominator the upload numbers need

#Detection

Deezer and Ipsos study: AI fools 97% of listeners

Deezer Newsroom, n=9,000 across eight countries, fielded Oct 6–10, 2025 · Nov 12, 2025 — respondents were played three tracks (two AI, one human) and asked to sort them; 97% failed the test. Not the same as “97% cannot tell the difference.” The upload and fraud figures in this post are superseded by the July 2026 release.

#Participation measurement

Observatory v75 participation coding — CRAIONS Observatory, 379 entries as of July 28, 2026. Of the 315 developments in which something was actually decided: creators a party in 20.6%, formally consulted in 7.5%, absent in 72.1%. Creators or their unions held the pen in 17.5%; without a union behind them, 6%. By year, creator presence ran 52% (2023), then 19%, 15% and 18%. Ties in the coding were broken toward “absent,” so 72% is a floor.

Project data — not externally published. Methodology lives in the Observatory documentation.