☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑💻<p>“AI is cutting a swath across a number of <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/CreativeIndustries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CreativeIndustries</span></a> — with AI-generated <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/BookCovers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BookCovers</span></a>, the Chicago Sun-Times publishing an <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/AIGenerated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AIGenerated</span></a> list of <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> that *don’t exist*, and AI-generated stories at CNET under real authors’ bylines. </p><p>The music industry is no exception. But while many of these fields are mired in questions about whether <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/AIModels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AIModels</span></a> are illegally <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/trained" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trained</span></a> on pirated <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>data</span></a>, the <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/MusicIndustry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MusicIndustry</span></a> is coming at the issue from a position of unusual strength: the benefits of years of case law backing <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/copyright" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>copyright</span></a> protections, a regimented <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/licensing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>licensing</span></a> system, and a handful of powerful companies that control the industry. <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/RecordLabels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RecordLabels</span></a> have chosen to fight several AI companies on copyright law, and they have a strong hand to play.”</p><p>Note the use of the word DATA. Music isn’t data, it is if you are a <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/TechWeenie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechWeenie</span></a> wanting to strip mine artistic music for profit.</p><p><a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/ArtificialIntelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ArtificialIntelligence</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/arts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>arts</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>music</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/musicians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>musicians</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/artists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>artists</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mining</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/StripMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StripMining</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>technology</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> <<a href="https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/695290/suno-udio-ai-music-legal-copyright-riaa" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theverge.com/ai-artificial-int</span><span class="invisible">elligence/695290/suno-udio-ai-music-legal-copyright-riaa</span></a>></p>