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# Your Morning Coffee Podcast: Rap on Trial, Copyright Fees, Udio AI, More.
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/your-morning-coffee-podcast-46/
- Published: 2026-05-11T13:17:35.000Z
- Updated: 2026-05-11T13:17:35.000Z
- Description: Episode 301 of Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart’s podcast Your Morning Coffee: Weekly News for the New Music Business is available now.
- Author: Your Morning Coffee
- Tags: Podcasts, Music Business, News, #beyondwords-skip, Your Morning Coffee

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**YMC Episode 301 — May 11, 2026**

On this week’s episode of the **Your Morning Coffee podcast**, your hosts Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart chat about these timely music industry stories:

- **Rap On Trial: The Long Battle to Keep Hip-Hop Lyrics Out of Court.**
- **The US Copyright Office is hiking registration fees by 43%. Indy music orgs say artists won't be able to afford it.**
- **Spotify wins motion for arbitration in 'payola' lawsuit.**
- **Udio admits to scraping YouTube audio for AI training in answer to Sony Music lawsuit.**

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