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The label had filed 135,000 requests by March, and has since added more than 260,000 additional requests.<\/p>\n<p>Deepfakes impersonating artists including <strong>Adele<\/strong> and <strong>Harry Styles<\/strong> have been marked as fraudulent.<\/p>\n<h2>Licensing and industry alliances<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Sony Music is the only music company to have joined the <a href=\"https:\/\/interspacemusic.com\/blog\/sony-music-group-joins-ariam-as-first-major-label-in-ai-coalition\/\"><strong>Alliance for Responsible Innovation in the Arts &amp; Media (ARIAM)<\/strong><\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Sony is also the only major label that has not signed an AI licensing deal with a currently active AI music generator such as <a href=\"https:\/\/elevenlabs.io\"><strong>ElevenLabs<\/strong><\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/suno.com\"><strong>Suno<\/strong><\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Sony has signed a licensing deal with <strong>Klay<\/strong>, but that product has not yet launched publicly.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Warner Music Group<\/strong> and <strong>Universal Music Group<\/strong> have also signed with Klay.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Label response<\/h2>\n<p>Sony said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe will keep enforcing our artists\u2019 rights and expect platforms to act quickly to prevent the same content from reappearing. 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