{
  "_meta": {
    "doc": "Rinzara AI-policy change feed: dated, sourced diffs in how platforms treat AI content. This is both the alert content (what a subscriber gets pinged about) and the citable story ('what changed in AI creative policy'). Newest first. Append a dated entry every time a platform moves.",
    "lastFullReview": "2026-06-08",
    "reverifyEvery": "monthly"
  },
  "changes": [
    {
      "date": "2026-04-16", "platform": "Spotify", "modality": "music",
      "change": "Spotify launched a beta letting artists disclose AI use directly in Song Credits, surfacing AI vocals, lyrics, or production on mobile.",
      "impact": "tightening",
      "source": "https://www.chartlex.com/blog/business/spotify-ai-song-credits-disclosure-2026"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-03-02", "platform": "US Copyright (all)", "modality": "all",
      "change": "The Supreme Court declined to hear Thaler v. Perlmutter, locking in the rule that pure AI output has no US copyright. You can sell it, but you cannot stop others copying it.",
      "impact": "clarifying",
      "source": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/02/us-supreme-court-declines-to-hear-dispute-over-copyrights-for-ai-generated-material.html"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-03-31", "platform": "Etsy", "modality": "image",
      "change": "Etsy's Q1 2026 enforcement wave removed over 12,000 AI listings and warned 8,500+ seller accounts for non-compliance, with sharply improved text and image detection.",
      "impact": "tightening",
      "source": "https://www.inkfluenceai.com/blog/etsy-ai-disclosure-explained-2026"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-02-01", "platform": "YouTube (music)", "modality": "music",
      "change": "Amuse disabled Content ID registration for AI-generated music in response to YouTube's stricter AI policy; DistroKid, TuneCore, and CD Baby still offer it.",
      "impact": "tightening",
      "source": "https://lastplaydistro.com/blog/youtube-content-id-ai-generated-music-policy-2026-what-creators-must-know"
    },
    {
      "date": "2025-11-25", "platform": "Suno / Warner Music", "modality": "music",
      "change": "Warner Music settled its lawsuit and struck a first-of-its-kind licensing partnership with Suno, moving the tool toward a licensed model.",
      "impact": "loosening",
      "source": "https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/warner-music-group-settles-with-suno-strikes-first-of-its-kind-deal-with-ai-song-generator/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2025-10-01", "platform": "Udio / Universal Music", "modality": "music",
      "change": "Universal Music settled with Udio and announced a co-launched licensed AI music platform for 2026.",
      "impact": "loosening",
      "source": "https://www.chartlex.com/blog/business/music-industry-ai-lawsuits-tracker-2026"
    },
    {
      "date": "2025-09-25", "platform": "Spotify", "modality": "music",
      "change": "Spotify announced a tougher impersonation policy, a behavioral music-spam filter targeting mass uploads, and support for a DDEX-based AI disclosure standard.",
      "impact": "tightening",
      "source": "https://newsroom.spotify.com/2025-09-25/spotify-strengthens-ai-protections/"
    },
    {
      "date": "2025-01-01", "platform": "TikTok", "modality": "video",
      "change": "TikTok integrated C2PA Content Credentials to auto-detect and label AI content, the first major platform to do so; it has since labeled over 1.3 billion AI videos.",
      "impact": "tightening",
      "source": "https://newsroom.tiktok.com/en-us/new-labels-for-disclosing-ai-generated-content"
    }
  ]
}