Common Music Group (UMG) announced a brand new partnership with social music creation platform BandLab Applied sciences on Oct. 18 to advertise accountable practices with synthetic intelligence (AI) within the business.
The partnership focuses on the “moral use of AI,” with one of many essential objectives being to guard the rights of artists and songwriters.
Michael Nash, government vice chairman and chief digital officer of UMG, added:
“That is extra essential than ever proper now as AI assumes an more and more outstanding place within the evolution of music creation instruments.”
Nash commented that together with defending artists’ rights, the 2 entities plan to create accountable approaches to utilizing AI in artistic processes to “champion human creativity and tradition.”
The same sentiment was expressed by the CEO of the Recording Academy, the establishment behind the Grammy Awards, in an interview with Cointelegraph. He mentioned AI might be an “amplifier” of human creativity.
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This isn’t the primary time UMG has taken on AI-related points. In August, UMG and Google have been reportedly in talks over methods to fight AI deep fakes by way of the event of a brand new device that may permit for the creation of AI tracks utilizing artists’ likenesses in a authorized means.
Shortly earlier than UMG and Google started speaking about taking AI copyright points, YouTube launched its personal set of rules for working with the music business on AI tech.
YouTube mentioned it had been in talks with main music business gamers reminiscent of UMG over methods to develop the rules. One was the introduction to its new “Music AI Incubator.”
The wrestle for copyright infringement issues between artists, musicians and creators concerning AI has even reached the courts. In August 2023, a United States decide denied copyright for AI artwork.
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