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Artificial Intelligence (AI) companies have sucked up the world\u2019s entire music catalogue and are guilty of \u201cwilful, commercial-scale copyright infringement\u201d, a major music industry group has said. \u201cThe world\u2019s largest tech companies as well as AI-specific companies, such as OpenAI, Suno, and Udio, Mistral, etc. are engaged in the largest copyright infringement exercise that has been seen,\u201d said John Phelan, director general of the International Confederation of Music Publishers (ICMP).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For nearly two years, the Brussels-based body, which represents music publishers and other industry professionals, investigated how generative AI companies used material to enrich their services. The ICMP is one of a number of industry bodies spanning the news media and publishing to target the booming AI sector over its use of content without paying royalties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AI music generators such as Suno and Udio can produce tracks with voices, melodies and musical styles that echo those of original artists such as the Beatles, Mariah Carey, Depeche Mode, or the Beach Boys. The Recording Industry Association of America, a US trade group, filed a lawsuit in June 2024 against both companies. \u201cWhat is legal or illegal is how the technologies are used. That means the corporate decisions made by the chief executives of companies matter immensely and should comply with the law,\u201d Phelan told AFP<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhat we see is they are engaged in wilful, commercial-scale copyright infringement.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One exception was Eleven Music, an AI-generated music service provider, which signed a deal with Kobalt Music in August, Phelan said. Contacted by AFP<\/em>, OpenAI declined to comment. Google, Mistral, Suno and Udio did not respond. Tech giants often invoke \u201cfair use\u201d, a copyright exception that allows the use of a work without permission under certain circumstances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Research by the ICMP, first published in music outlet Billboard<\/em> on September 9, claimed that AI companies had engaged in widespread \u201cscraping\u201d, a practice that uses programmes known as \u201ccrawlers\u201d which explore the internet for content. \u201cWe believe they are doing so from licensed services such as YouTube (owned by Google) and other digital sources,\u201d including music platforms, the group added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lyrics can be harvested to feed some models, which then use them for inspiration or reproduce them without permission, according to the ICMP. In response, rights holders are calling for tougher regulation, notably through the European Union\u2019s Artificial Intelligence Act, to ensure transparency about the data used.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt is essential to understand the scale of the threat facing authors, composers and publishers,\u201d warned Juliette Metz, president of the French music publishers\u2019 association and also an ICMP member. \u201cThere can be no use of copyright-protected music without a licence,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the United States, AI start-up Anthropic, creator of Claude, announced on September 6 that it had agreed to pay at least $1.5 billion into a compensation fund for authors, rights holders and publishers who sued the firm for illegally downloading millions of books. The three US-based music majors \u2013 Universal, Warner and Sony \u2013 have entered into negotiations with Suno and Udio, aiming for a licensing deal. Music generated entirely by AI is already seeping onto streaming platforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Velvet Sundown, a 1970s-style fake rock band, as well as country music creations \u2018Aventhis\u2019 and \u2018The Devil Inside\u2019 have racked up millions of plays on streaming giant Spotify. AI-generated music accounts for 28 percent of content uploaded daily on Deezer, the French music platform, which has reported a surge over the past year in uploads. It has an AI-music detection tool that is able to identify songs generated using models such as Suno and Udio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A major study in December last year by the International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers, which represents more than five million creators worldwide, warned about the danger of AI-generated music. It forecast that artists could see their incomes shrink by more than 20 percent in the next four years as the market for AI-composed music grows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Artificial Intelligence (AI) companies have sucked up the world\u2019s entire music catalogue and are guilty of \u201cwilful, commercial-scale copyright infringement\u201d, a major music industry group has said. \u201cThe world\u2019s largest tech companies as well as AI-specific companies, such as OpenAI, Suno, and Udio, Mistral, etc. are engaged in the largest copyright infringement exercise that has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_3859443944190656_828796993651875":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4883","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sci-tec"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4885,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4883\/revisions\/4885"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}