Copyright Emerce

Universal Music Group is asking streaming services such as Spotify and Apple Music not to use its artists' music for training AI models.

The music and lyrics of from Universal's stable are protected by copyright and should not be fed to smart software to learn from.

The music publisher is afraid that smart entrepreneurs will use AI to generate music that looks like the work of popular artists from Universals stable. In this way, the owner of roughly one-third of the world's music rights could suffer a significant financial loss.

To avoid the risk of eroding its artistic work, Universal last month urged streaming companies to leave its intellectual property alone in AI trials or other projects. The was the first to on this.

To illustrate, is this song mixed by AI a Michael Jackson song or a Kanye West song?

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In South Korea, things recently went when Samsung employees submitted software code to ChatGPT. OpenAI's model used that previously unknown code to learn. That resulted in ChatGPT being able to give other programmers advice inspired by Samsung's secret or protected work.

The legal question of what AIs can and cannot do with intellectual property is still largely open. Judges have yet to rule on it. Tech fans say computers learn patterns; critics say they simply copy the work and thinking of others.

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