Music platforms are setting varied rules for AI-generated music. Bandcamp banned AI-generated music to prioritize human creativity. Apple Music introduced a transparency tag requiring labels to flag AI use in music, album art, music videos, or composition, with qualification left to label discretion. Spotify has taken a more permissive approach, allowing voluntary disclosure and now expanding AI capabilities through a licensing agreement with Universal Music Group. The agreement enables Spotify users to create AI-generated covers and remixes in styles of participating artists. Spotify frames the tool as responsible AI use and expects participating artists to share revenue from streams of AI-generated covers.
"Bandcamp banned AI-generated music outright, in the interest of "putting human creativity first." In March, Apple Music launched a "transparency tag" system, by which labels must flag AI use in music, album art, music videos or composition. (Apparently, what qualifies as AI use is up to a label's discretion.)"
"Spotify, the world's most popular music streaming service, has taken a soft approach. Although it announced a series of "AI protections" last year, the streamer does not require artists to disclose AI use, although they can choose to do so voluntarily. Now, the streamer is doubling down on AI-generated music."
"On Thursday, Spotify inked a licensing agreement with Universal Music Group (UMG), which would allow Spotify users to create AI-generated covers and remixes. Choosing from a pool of participating artists - presumably a large one, given that UMG is the world's biggest music company - a user can generate music in the styles of his favorite artists."
"That means that there is a foreseeable future in which a Spotify user could make an AI-generated version of "Not Like Us," rendered in Drake's voice ( depending on contract obligations). In a blog post announcing the agreement, Spotify celebrated the forthcoming tool as a responsible use of AI, one that would allow participating artists to share in revenue from streams of AI-generated covers."
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