Roger Miller’s Career Highlighted In Upcoming New CMHOFM Exhibit
The life and career of Country Music Hall of Fame member Roger Miller will be explored in a new exhibit. “Roger Miller: Wit, Wisdom, and Wonder,” opening Nov. 6 at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum.
The exhibit follows the story of the renowned singer-songwriter whose multifaceted career earned him accolades and widespread affection from the public. Miller became a country-pop superstar in the 1960s with self-penned crossover hits like “Dang Me” and “King of the Road.” At the height of the British Invasion, Miller won 11 Grammys, and was the first country artist to win a Tony. A true renaissance man, he mastered multiple crafts as a songwriter, singer, fiddler, guitarist, drummer, film and TV star, Las Vegas headliner, and Broadway composer. The exhibit will feature a short film produced by the museum and narrated by Country Music Hall of Fame member Marty Stuart. Visitors will see clothing, awards, handwritten notes, song manuscripts, instruments and rare footage of Miller’s TV appearances and performances. The exhibit, supported by All Access Coach Leasing, is included with museum admission and runs through March 2028.“Roger Miller was a singular creative force,” says Kyle Young, CEO of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. “Though considered a musical genius and humorist, his greatest gift may have been his ability to connect with people. He channeled his many sides into fantastically absurd, touching and astute songwriting that still resonates
today. The life and career of Country Music Hall of Fame member Roger Miller will be explored in a new exhibit. “Roger Miller: Wit, Wisdom, and Wonder,” opening Nov. 6 at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum.
“Roger Miller was a singular creative force,” says Kyle Young, CEO of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. “Though considered a musical genius and humorist, his greatest gift may have been his ability to connect with people. He channeled his many sides into fantastically absurd, touching and astute songwriting that still resonates today.”
Congressional Bill to Block ‘Foreign Piracy Sites’ Introduced
On Monday, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) introduced a bill aimed at creating an expedited judicial process for copyright owners to obtain orders to block access to certain foreign piracy sites. Dubbed the American Copyright Protection Act (ACPA), the bill is designed to supplement the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), the speed of which Issa argues is too inefficient to address today’s digital landscape.
The official text of Issa’s bill has not yet been publicly revealed, but groups who have spoken out in opposition—including Re:Create and Public Knowledge—have reviewed a draft of the bill that was circulated to stakeholders in May 2025. Reportedly, the bill would allow a copyright owner to petition a designated federal judge to block a piracy site, after which the court would decide whether the target was a qualifying “foreign piracy site.” The court could then order covered service providers to take reasonable steps to prevent U.S. users from accessing it. Such orders could be subsequently updated, renewed, narrowed, or rescinded. o that end, Re:Create Executive Director Brandon Butler cautioned that the bill in its current iteration actually promotes censorship and is “anything but American.”
“By codifying a one-sided legal process modeled on European site-blocking laws, which have been shown to cause widespread censorship, this bill violates American due process, First Amendment rights, and American ingenuity,” said Butler.
“Rather than attacking the problem at its source by bringing the people running overseas piracy websites to court, Congress and its entertainment industry allies have decided to build out a sweeping infrastructure for censorship,” said Public Knowledge Senior Policy Counsel, Meredith Rose, adding that the approach is misguided and will have far-reaching consequences. “Site-blocking orders force any service provider, from residential broadband providers to global DNS resolvers, to disrupt traffic from targeted websites simply accused of copyright infringement.” That means the court can essentially cut off global access to a website, according to Rose, which has led to problems in Europe where similar legislature has already been implemented. Data from Re:Create reveals that “innocent” websites remained blocked for an average of 320 days in Italy, while 5.8% of the “popular internet,” including Harvard University and Greenpeace, was blocked by Spain’s system during crucial sports matches.
BMI launches free service to help US songwriters and composers find healthcare coverage
BMI has launched a free service to help its US-based songwriters and composers find healthcare coverage for themselves and their families.
Called BMI Health Connect, the service has been created in collaboration with Gallagher Alternative Health Solutions, part of global insurance brokerage Arthur J. Gallagher & Co.
It connects BMI‘s US affiliates with insurance advisors who provide one-on-one guidance on healthcare options, the company announced on Wednesday (September 16). Through the service, BMI‘s music creators can compare options including Affordable Care Act (ACA) exchange plans, private off-exchange plans, and Medicare, as well as dental, vision, and other insurance offerings.
The service also covers plans eligible for cost-sharing subsidies, according to BMI.
The advisors are independent and have access to hundreds of plans, including some not available on state exchanges, BMI said.
“BMI Health Connect was created to help bring clarity to an often-complex process and connect our songwriters and composers with a trusted resource so they can spend less time navigating health coverage and more time doing what they do best.” BMI Health Connect is available now, with affiliates encouraged to contact an advisor before open enrollment begins, according to the company.
Medicare open enrollment for 2027 coverage runs from October 15 to December 7, 2026, while ACA open enrollment on HealthCare.gov runs from November 1, 2026 to January 15, 2027 – with December 15 the deadline for coverage starting January 1. Several state-run marketplaces set their own deadlines.
Affiliates who need immediate coverage can enroll in short-term medical plans, or in other plans through a Qualifying Life Event, BMI said.
Universal Music Sues DistroKid for Copyright Infringement and Deceptive Trade Practices, Says the Distributor ‘Is Flooding Platforms With AI-Generated Slop’
UMG submitted the 52-page action to a Delaware federal court today, and as many will recognize, the writing was on the wall here. Yesterday brought the announcement of the “Streaming Integrity Initiative” (SII), a program designed to decommission fake plays.
Though many distributors are on board with the majors-backed SII, DistroKid is conspicuously absent from the list of initial participants. So is Believe’s TuneCore, which only settled a $500 million Universal Music copyright suit earlier in 2026. And based on a pile of unauthorized-remix and AI slop evidence, it seems entirely possible that at least one other distributor avoided litigation by enrolling in the SII and agreeing to the practices at hand.
This is important because machine-generated audio is front and center in UMG’s DistroKid complaint, which alleges that today’s “digital music economy…has been co-opted by those trying to pass off mass AI-generated, SEO-optimized, and copyright-infringing slop as music created and performed by a real human.
“DistroKid promotes itself to the public and Digital Services as a leading music distributor for artist-backed releases,” the suit continues. “But DistroKid’s representations are made of air. In actuality, DistroKid is flooding platforms with AI-generated ‘slop’ that siphons revenue and listeners from the legitimate artists and
rightsholders.” By way of specifics, the legal text points to “bad actors” such as “Lofi Chill,” which is said to have “released 4,562 tracks in a single twelve-month period.” Similarly, “Chill Flow Radio” allegedly dropped 1,901 tracks during the identical stretch, against 1,615 for “Mellow Vibes Radio.” “Unsurprisingly, technical analysis of these artists’ immense catalogs confirms that the vast majority of their tracks (over 97% for Chill Flow Radio and over 98% for Mellow Vibes Radio) are raw outputs from the AI song generator, Suno,” UMG added.
American Music Tourism Act sent to President Trump’s desk to be signed into law
The US House of Representatives has passed the American Music Tourism Act, sending it to President Donald Trump’s desk for signature.
First introduced in 2024, the American Music Tourism Act returned to Congress in January last year. The bipartisan legislation aims to boost music-related travel and tourism in the US, with the National Travel and Tourism Office (NTTO) working to promote live music events and music venues, as well as sites such as Graceland (the home of Elvis Presley in Memphis, Tennessee).
Congresswoman Diana Harshbarger (R-TN) led the House companion, H.R. 617, which passed the House in April 2025, while Senator Masha Blackburn (R-TN) led the Senate companion, S.195, which passed the Senate in May 2025, supported by Senator John Hickenlooper (D-CO).
“After more than two years of work, our bipartisan American Music Tourism Act is officially headed to President Trump’s desk,” said
Harshbarger. “As home to iconic destinations like Dollywood in Pigeon Forge and the Birthplace of Country Music in Bristol, Tennessee’s First District plays a vital role in the music tourism industry, and this bill will have a direct impact on a district that lives and breathes it. I’m grateful to Senator Blackburn for getting this bill through the Senate, and I look forward to President Trump signing it into law.”
Blackburn added: “The Volunteer State is home to so many iconic musical landmarks for tourists to experience – from Graceland in Memphis to the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville to Dollywood in Pigeon Forge.
“Music tourism has such a positive impact on Tennessee’s economy, and we need to ensure that fans from all over the world continue to celebrate our state’s rich history of music for generations to come. The American Music Tourism Act will promote and support the fast-growing music tourism industry, and I am pleased it is heading to President Trump’s desk.”
The country’s National Independent Venue Association (NIVA) has praised the decision to pass the legislation.
Suno hit with another proposed class action over data breach that leaked information of 55M users
Suno has been hit with another proposed class action over the November 2025 data breach that reportedly exposed the personal information of 55.3 million users.
The complaint was filed earlier this month (September 3) in the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts, where Suno is headquartered.
The named plaintiff is Michael Beckham, whom the filing describes as an adult domiciled in Huron, South Dakota. Beckham says he created a Suno account using his Gmail address no later than the summer of 2024, and that breach-notification service Have I Been Pwned identified that address as included in the stolen Suno dataset. The scale of the breach became public when Have I Been Pwned added the dataset to its database on July 20, and TechCrunch reported the following day that Suno had confirmed a security incident in November 2025 and did not dispute the number of users affected. Suno is separately defending copyright infringement claims from Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment in the same court, in litigation coordinated by the RIAA and first brought in 2024.
