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Can the music industry make AI the next Napster? | Turns out copyright law in music is special — and the record labels are bringing out the big guns.

Turns out sampling cases may have far-reaching consequences.

Take the artist D4vd, who recorded his breakout hit “Romantic Homicide” in his sister’s closet using BandLab, an app for making music without a studio that includes some AI features. “I wouldn’t want to be [new-age musician] Steven Halpern and have my future career based on meditation music,” says David Hughes, who served as CTO for the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for 15 years. These are fixed-term contracts, fairly large deals, worth six figures over a multiyear period.” He recommends maintaining as much control as possible over copyrighted work to avoid diluting the value of existing IP.

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