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The 10 Biggest AI Music Stories of 2024: Lawsuits, ELVIS Act, ‘BBL Drizzy’ & More
The biggest AI music stories of 2024 involve a Drake diss track, the TikTok-UMG fight, several lawsuits, Tenneessee's ELVIS Act on deepfakes and more.
Between the the majors suing Suno and Udio, the ELVIS Act protecting voices against deepfakes and "BBL Drizzy" setting legal precedent, it's been a big year for AI music. Investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross, Matrix, and Founder Collective flocked to the hot new model, and Suno was able to raise a whopping $125 million in funding over multiple rounds. If passed, the legislation would create federal intellectual property protections for the so-called right of publicity for the first time, which restricts how someone’s name, image, likeness and voice can be used without consent.
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