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Universal Music Asks Streaming Services to Block AI Companies From Accessing Its Songs
Amid growing concerns about the use of copyrighted songs to "train" AI music platforms, UMG says it "will not hesitate to take steps to protect our rights."
BY BILL DONAHUE
Universal Music Group (UMG) is asking streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music to stop artificial intelligence companies from accessing the label’s copyrighted songs to “train” their machines, in what amounts to the latest music industry backlash to such technology.
In an email sent to Spotify, Apple Music and other streamers last month, UMG said that it had become aware that certain AI services had been trained on copyrighted music “without obtaining the required consents” from those who own the songs.
In the message, first reported by the Financial Times, UMG reminded streamers that they must prohibit such services from using their platforms for those purposes — and it came with an ominous warning.
“We will not hesitate to take steps to protect our rights and those of our artists,” UMG wrote in the email, the details of which were confirmed to Billboard by multiple sources on both sides. But it’s unclear exactly what those steps might be, or what exactly UMG wants the streamers to do differently.
AI platforms are “trained” to produce new creations by feeding them vast quantities of existing works known as “inputs.” In the case of AI music platforms, that process involves huge numbers of songs. While AI tools have exploded in popularity in the last six months, voices across the music industry have begun to argue that such training infringes the copyrights of the many artists who created the original works.
While that issue is legally novel and unresolved, it could be answered in court soon. A group of visual artists has filed a class action over the use of their copyrighted images to train AI platforms, and Getty Images has filed a similar case against AI companies that allegedly “scraped” its database for training materials.
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Universal Music Asks Streaming Services to Block AI Companies From Accessing Its Songs
Amid growing concerns about the use of copyrighted songs to "train" AI music platforms, UMG says it "will not hesitate to take steps to protect our rights."
BY BILL DONAHUE
Universal Music Group (UMG) is asking streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music to stop artificial intelligence companies from accessing the label’s copyrighted songs to “train” their machines, in what amounts to the latest music industry backlash to such technology.
In an email sent to Spotify, Apple Music and other streamers last month, UMG said that it had become aware that certain AI services had been trained on copyrighted music “without obtaining the required consents” from those who own the songs.
In the message, first reported by the Financial Times, UMG reminded streamers that they must prohibit such services from using their platforms for those purposes — and it came with an ominous warning.
“We will not hesitate to take steps to protect our rights and those of our artists,” UMG wrote in the email, the details of which were confirmed to Billboard by multiple sources on both sides. But it’s unclear exactly what those steps might be, or what exactly UMG wants the streamers to do differently.
AI platforms are “trained” to produce new creations by feeding them vast quantities of existing works known as “inputs.” In the case of AI music platforms, that process involves huge numbers of songs. While AI tools have exploded in popularity in the last six months, voices across the music industry have begun to argue that such training infringes the copyrights of the many artists who created the original works.
While that issue is legally novel and unresolved, it could be answered in court soon. A group of visual artists has filed a class action over the use of their copyrighted images to train AI platforms, and Getty Images has filed a similar case against AI companies that allegedly “scraped” its database for training materials.
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Universal Music Asks Streaming Services to Block AI Companies From Accessing Its Songs
When 3Stacks.wav puts out an album before 3Stacks could even blink. This shyt is going to become a HUGE deal than memes. We're talking unlimited ways of making music that will not only put musicians out of business, but the labels as well.
