The music industry is struggling on the platforms, through the Court and the legislators to prevent the plagiarism from AI born but this is still a difficult battle.
The battle between the music industry and AI will persist. Image: stock
Sony Music said they recently asked to remove 75,000 fake products including images, melodies or videos that could easily be confused with real products, a number that reflects the size of the problem, AFP Report. According to Pink Information Security Company, music created by who has “signs of awareness” and easy to detect, but that type of music seems to be everywhere. “Even if it sounds true, the songs created by anyone often have a less sophisticated and smooth place when changing the frequency, rhythm and digital model, which is not available in human performances,” Pinkdrop, a company specializing in voice analysis, sharing.
However, YouTube or Spotify, the top two music players today, take a minute to detect a fake rap from 2pac and pizza, or the song of Ariana Grande’s K-pop song that the singer has never performed. “We are seriously reviewing the problem and trying to develop new tools to detect better,” said Sam Duboff, Spotify’s policy officer. YouTube said they are strengthening the ability to detect fake products with AI and will notify the results in the next few weeks.
But in addition to fake products, the music industry is particularly concerned about the illegal use of content to train the model of AI generation such as Suno, Udio or Mubert. Some big discs last year filed a lawsuit against the Federal Court in New York, accusing the parent company UDIO to develop technology with “copyrighted recording for the ultimate goal of pulling listeners, fans and licensed”. After more than 9 months, the legal procedures have not started. The same thing happens with the Suno program lawsuit in Massachusetts.
At the dispute center is the principle of reasonable use, allowing to limit some copyright documents without asking permission in advance. This may limit the application of intellectual property rights. Any initial judgment is not necessarily decisive, unanimous opinions from different courts can push the problem to the Supreme Court. Meanwhile, key units related to music created by who can continue training their model with copyrighted products, raising the question of where the war will go.
According to Joseph Fishman, a law professor at Vanderbilt University, it was too early to make a conclusion. Although many models are training with protected documents, new versions are continuously born, and it is unclear whether the Court’s ruling will create licensing issues for those models.
In the field of legislative, artists, artists and manufacturers have been very small. The US Congress has introduced a number of laws, but has not achieved specific results. A few states like Tennessee, where the country’s music industry has strongly developed, has applied the protection law to prevent fake products. For analyst Goldman Sachs, AI will most likely continue to cause trouble for the music industry as long as they have not yet included in the framework.