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AI Music Companies Are Generating Buzz. Are They Licensing The Works That Train Them? (Guest Column)
AI music companies should license the works that train their models, says a guest column by composer and CEO Ed Newton-Rex.
Like when a big media company, though keen to defend its own rights, told me it couldn’t find a way to stop using unfairly-trained generative AI in other domains. Or, last week, with the publication of a series of articles about AI music company Suno that I think downplay serious questions about the training data it uses. To put it simply — and to use some details pulled from Suno’s Rolling Stone interview — it doesn’t matter whether you’re a team of musicians, what you profess to think about IP, or how many pictures of famous composers you have on the walls.
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