Kominami
Industry news to follow, plus creator-facing works and production notes, kept distinct.
Releases, deals, lawsuits, and terms of service.
News
On 11 September 2026 ElevenLabs made Music v2.5 the default in ElevenMusic; v2 stays. Official caps: five lossless downloads a day on Free, 400 a month on Pro. Downloads that reference other artists’ songs are blocked. Commercial scope varies by tier—see Terms. The recent UMG deal is separate.
News
On 4 September 2026 the AFM filed opposition in S.D.N.Y. to motions to dismiss by UMG, Warner Records, and Atlantic. The fight is whether SRLA Article 21(a) “new use” requires pay and notice when labels licensed recordings to Suno/Udio. The labels say there is no separate AI rate agreement, so nothing is owed. No court ruling yet. Not legal advice.
News
Coverage window: 8–14 September 2026. Suno launched v6 with Warner, BMG, and Believe, and is retiring older models. Believe/TuneCore said only output from the new industry-partner models is eligible to distribute. Suno admitted it obtained YouTube audio with YT-DLP for training. UMG and ElevenLabs signed a multi-year licensed fan-creation platform. Spotify’s AI Persona badge is about visual identity, not whether the music is AI-generated.
News
Coverage window: 31 August–7 September 2026. This week, both courts and products moved the ground under commercial use of AI music. Few outcomes are final, but terms, download caps, watermarks, and new lawsuits already change day-to-day practice.
Works and makers to enjoy, plus production notes. These are not labeled as news.
Production notes
Kominami searches for unfamiliar genre combinations in Suno, rejects weak outputs, pairs selected tracks with matching or deliberately mismatched ChatGPT artwork, and hands the repetitive work after FFmpeg to software. This is the real workflow behind publishing ten tracks a day.
Production notes
From 3 September 2026, Suno limits how many files can leave the platform: 20 a month on Pro, 60 on Premier. The official unlimited path is Premier export from Suno Studio only. Kominami does not use Studio and still takes files from the library, so catalog acquisition sits outside that exception. Downloads from getkominami.com are not Suno quota.
Production notes
A production-focused reading of the official v5.5 release notes and the generation metadata recorded for Kominami tracks.