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The 10 Biggest Music Law Stories of 2024: Diddy, Young Thug, Drake, AI & More
The biggest legal stories in music of 2024 include lawsuits and filings involving Diddy, Young Thug, Drake, artificial intelligence and more.
The ongoing rise of generative artificial intelligence technology like ChatGPT also continued to dominate the legal beat in 2024, as lawyers and lawmakers scrambled to deal with cutting-edge problems like deepfakes of Taylor Swift, fake vocals of the late Tupac Shakur, and large-scale use of copyrighted music to train AI platforms. That case, which the AI firms have argued is an abuse of intellectual property, is the music industry chapter of a broader legal struggle over whether such training constitutes copyright “fair use” — a literal trillion-dollar question that will take years to definitively answer. Then in August, a California appeals court issued a final decision rejecting Katherine’s objections and allowing the sale to move forward, ruling that Michael’s will had vested his executors with “full power and authority” to ink such transactions.
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