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Warner Music recently settled its copyright lawsuit against Suno and <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/25/warner-music-signs-deal-with-ai-music-startup-suno-settles-lawsuit/" target="_blank">entered a licensing deal</a> instead.</p></li></ul><p class="mcePastedContent"><br></p><p class="mcePastedContent"><strong>Why it matters:</strong></p><p class="mcePastedContent"><br></p><p class="mcePastedContent">Coming from a company that <a href="https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/disney-nbcuniversal-studio-lawsuit-ai-midjourney-copyright-infringement-1236428188/" target="_blank">sued Midjourney</a> just three months ago, this deal is both a watershed moment and a blueprint—proof that even aggressive rights holders see a path beyond litigation.</p><p class="mcePastedContent"><br></p><p class="mcePastedContent">As copyright scholar Matthew Sag <a href="https://fortune.com/2025/12/11/openai-disney-sora-deal-hollywood-war-ended-matthew-sag/" target="_blank">told Fortune</a>, "We are moving away from total war between AI and content, toward a negotiated partition of the world… This is the template for the future.”</p></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td style="background-color:transparent;border:0;border-radius:0" valign="top" id="b130"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" role="presentation" data-block-id="130"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" class="mceSpacerBlock" height="20"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td style="padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-right:0;padding-left:0" valign="top" class="mceGutterContainer" id="gutterContainerId-129"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border-collapse:separate" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td style="padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-right:0;padding-left:0;border:0;border-radius:0" valign="top" id="b129"><table width="100%" style="border-width:1px;border-style:solid;border-color:#d6d6d6;background-color:transparent;border-radius:5px;border-collapse:separate"><tbody><tr><td style="padding-left:24px;padding-right:24px;padding-top:12px;padding-bottom:12px" class="mceTextBlockContainer"><div data-block-id="129" class="mceText" id="d129" style="width:100%"><p class="last-child" style="text-align: left;"><em><strong>📌 Spellbook is a word add-on that helps legal teams draft and review contracts 10x faster. 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method</p></li></ul><p class="mcePastedContent"><br></p><p class="mcePastedContent">The full report includes five deep-dive data stories and 270+ clause benchmarks.</p><p class="mcePastedContent"><br></p><p class="mcePastedContent"><a href="https://www.spellbook.legal/blog/2026-state-of-contracts-report" target="_blank"><strong><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif">Download </span></span></strong></a><a href="https://www.spellbook.legal/state-of-legal-contracts" target="_blank"><strong><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, 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