According to the countersuit, from 2002 through 2025, AREC has collected and deposited into its own bank account "a 50% share of anything and everything that flowed as a result of her creative output from 1962 to 2001"-an amount reportedly unknown to Warwick. It wasn't until September 2025, Warwick's lawsuit alleges, that Warwick sought aid from the Davis firm.
We demand that the amateurs in control of the ICE social media account take it down. It ain't funny, this song means a lot to us and other people, and you don't get to appropriate it without a fight. Also, go f- yourselves... Radiohead
A spokesperson for the legendary band told the Guardian that the deal to use Gimme Shelter, in an opening sequence of Melania, was made between the film's producers and the music company ABKCO, which holds the rights to the song.
There was music that we tried to get, but sadly, there were politics to it. According to Beckman, the band responsible for hits including November Rain and Sweet Child O' Mine were divided on whether their songs could be used in his movie. There was a beautiful song we wanted to use, and one of the guys said, 'You got it. Go.' And the other one was basically like, 'There's just no way.'
The about-face is a welcome surprise. Until now, the massive convention - which has become a melting pot of all kinds of pop entertainment beyond the comic medium, with everyone ranging from game developers to movie studios using it as a platform to tease new content - has allowed some AI art to be displayed, so long as it was labeled as such and wasn't for sale, as well as other stipulations that have been in place since at least 2024, according to 404.
"Klay uses its interactive tool Large Music Model, which is trained solely on licensed music, to "reimagine listening." The company states that Klay "is not a prompt-based meme generation engine," but rather a "new subscription product that will uplift great artists and celebrate their craft." Klay prides itself on working with the music industry to enhance human creativity instead of trying to replace it. The company hopes to include independent labels, artists, publishers, and songwriters next."
But the masters rights for her first six albums - which means the actual recorded versions of her songs and music videos - belonged to her first label, Big Machine Records, as is standard in the music industry. This year, Swift finally struck a deal and reclaimed the master recordings from Shamrock Capitol, the private equity firm that acquired them in 2020.
"Since Spotify came along, I have always felt skeptical and opposed to their platform. Because it became the norm, I felt like I had to just put up with it and take what I could get. Perhaps that was true more so in the nascent stages of my solo career, but it doesn't feel that way now."
