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Why Europe’s Pioneering AI Legislation Has the Music Business Worried: ‘Make or Break Moment’

As the EU finalizes regulations in the landmark AI Act, music groups demand disclosure of training data and strong protections for human-made content.

Just over one year later — and with less than three months until the European Union’s Artificial Intelligence Act is due to come fully into force — those same execs say they now have “serious concerns” about how the laws are being implemented amid a fierce lobbying battle between creator groups and big tech. Putting those provisions into practice is proving less straight-forward, however, with the latest version of the code, published in March, provoking a strong backlash from music execs who say that the draft text risks undermining the very same laws it is designed to support. The template, which is also overdue and causing equal concern among rights holders, will set the minimum requirements of training data that AI developers have to publicly disclose, including copyright-protected songs that they have used in the form of a “sufficiently detailed summary.”

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