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This article speaks for itself as well as the examples generated by SUNO AI. This company clearly has trained from all copyrighted works, yet they dodge and remain silent as to how their AI models were trained.
It really is in all of our interests to see this company shut down. I really do not think a “renumeration” model should be born out of their technology. Warm up the popcorn, because this will truly define the music landscape moving forward.
I have to admit for all of the “sort of” musical AIs out there this is the most concerning. I imagine they will eventually get sued.
Been calling this out for years, thing with these kind of technologies is they’re exponential. Once the balls rolling everyone is like “drum machines never put anyone out of business”, which utterly misunderstands the concept (and high quality samples probably have for a lot of projects). There genuinely needs to be legislation about this, hard rules, trouble is (I’m no expert in law) how to legislate for every country? I don’t think the likes of China and Russia will follow suit.
Just taking a quick look at the comments (I’ve reached my limit on free access) its amazing how much hostility there is towards musicians. Goofball libertarian concepts trying to pose as “new ways” to look at creating
Contrary to popular belief, China offers fairly robust protection of intellectual property, including music.
The 2021 report from IFPI showed that 97% of Chinese consumers used licensed music content. The global average is below 70%. Also, 61% of Chinese consumers were subscribed to at least one paid service.
The 3rd Amendment to the Chinese Copyright Act, enacted in 2021, increased copyright protections on audio-visual works.
China had no tradition of intellectual property law under the Dynastic System before the 1920s, but IP law in China has developed rapidly since the 90s. They now file twice as many international patents as the US, and created a dedicated court system to deal with IP infringement.
I’m not sure how they will deal with AI, but I wouldn’t assume it will be worse than any other country.
This from Music1234.
Well this is coming in a timely manner. Everyone should take the time to draft their comments and send them to the USA Copyright office or your own country’s copyright office. I’d send comments to your Senator too.
https://www.ascap.com/news-events/articles/2024/04/generative-AI-copyright-disclosure-act
If you think Suno is good wait until you guys hear Google’s new Udio model
Extra concerning about Udio is also the partial ownership stake Alphabet (Google) has in BMI.
This is definitely not a step in a good direction
Say goodbye…..
When I first heard about Suno, it definitely sent me into a deep dark place but the more I thought about it I was able to pull out of my “sky is falling” nosedive (especially after creating a profile and “creating” music within seconds, it’s just awful). I would put money that the AI model will dry up all of the royalty free libraries but there’s no good money to be made there anyways, right?
There is still a weird emptiness or a sterility to any AI music I’ve heard. Compound this with the very important concept of emotive nostalgia that music can create.
Like Art said: spend a minute to write/call/email your elected officials! It would be swell if someone could post a boiler plate doc here for everyone’s ease that could be easily copied & modified if only to save people time.
Final thought: it does completely chap my arse that Silicon Valley spends time making AI do “this” instead of oh I dunno – fixing our national health insurance sitch.
Wow…Grand Theft Udio…..?
UDIO is definitely impressive, but the legal side of it could be tricky. Some of the tracks I generated with UDIO sound like ripoffs of popular singers. I’m sure writers and PROs won’t let that slide without any compensation for songwriters.