Is the music industry leaving value on the table and setting itself back by failing to embrace generative AI? Warner Music head Robert Kyncl believes so. “My point, and I’ve said this publicly multiple times, is that the industry had reacted far too slowly” to the advent of the internet, Kyncl communicated. “It was on its heels, defensive, and because of that, it took really until 2014 for the streaming services to really take off. “There was just a lot of value destruction basically for well over a decade. And it was just caused by very defensive behavior and slow movement forward.”
Meet Tamber, an AI Music Platform Whose Founder Isn’t Interested in ‘Blatantly Robbing’ Musicians
Tamber, which Wrenn has described previously as an “Adobe Creative Suite for music,” uses artificial intelligence to transform feelings, colors, sounds and other descriptive text into musical ideas, and Wrenn believes it could be the antidote to the rise of generative AI tools that are training on “stolen data” and dominating the market right now.
Source: Meet Tamber, an AI Music Platform Whose Founder Isn’t Interested in ‘Blatantly Robbing’ Musicians
Anthropic’s $1.5B copyright settlement is getting messy as judge delays approval
After several authors and class members raised objections to Anthropic’s $1.5 billion settlement over its widespread book piracy to train AI, a federal judge has delayed final approvals of the settlement. On Thursday, US District Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin declined to rubber-stamp what’s regarded as the largest copyright settlement in US history. Instead, she wanted to better understand why some class members were objecting and opting out of the settlement.
Source: Anthropic’s $1.5B copyright settlement is getting messy as judge delays approval
Runway started by helping filmmakers — now it wants to beat Google at AI
For the past several years, the AI industry has largely operated on the premise that intelligence lives in language. Large language models like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude reflect that bet. Runway, alongside other competitors, is making a different one. Its founders believe the next form of AI intelligence won’t be built from text, but from video and world models that learn how the world works, not just how humans describe it.
Source: Runway started by helping filmmakers — now it wants to beat Google at AI
The Founders’ Case for Human Authorship in the Age of AI
Who should be eligible for the rewards of copyright protection? The answer shapes human activities across an entire society. From a republican perspective, human creation is worth promoting not merely for its outputs, but because a society of people who write, create, and invent is better equipped for self-governance. As law professor Jane Ginsburg explains, every historical justification for copyrights—natural rights, fairness to creators, incentives for innovation, inducements to disclose —presupposes a human creator. That was no accident.
Source: The Founders’ Case for Human Authorship in the Age of AI
Who Owns AI-Generated Content? Documenting the Creation Process Is Critical
Businesses across industries now use generative AI to draft advertising and website text, create images and presentations, generate software code and develop product concepts. As that use becomes more common, so does an increasingly important question: who, if anyone, owns the output? Copyright depends on authorship, which the Court has described as the person “to whom anything owes its origin.” In the AI context, that makes human authorship the central issue.
Source: Who Owns AI-Generated Content? Documenting the Creation Process Is Critical
‘There are no rules’: spotlight on Gossip Goblin as AI film-making enters new era
AI film-makers stand on the brink of a breakthrough that backers believe will unleash a new wave of creativity. A new cadre, no longer blocked by red lights from studios, feel liberated. They don’t care that the Oscars and the Cannes film festival have in recent weeks ruled AI out of the running for some of their most prestigious prizes. But the rising movement triggers despair for critics who fume about “ugly slop” and “AI sludge”, robots replacing human creativity and copyright piracy in AI model training.
‘There are no rules’: spotlight on Gossip Goblin as AI film-making enters new era
If you thought the US music industry was concerned about AI, listen to the Chinese
The Chinese music streaming market is facing “industry chaos” due to platforms allowing masses of copyright-infringing, AI-made tracks to fill up their catalogs. That’s the verdict of Tencent Music Entertainment‘s Executive Chairman, Cussion Pang, and CEO, Ross Liang, delivered during TME‘s Q1 earnings call on Tuesday. Their comments represent one of the most direct warnings yet from industry leaders over the damage AI-generated content is doing to streaming subscription businesses in China.
Source: If you thought the US music industry was concerned about AI, listen to the Chinese
SAG-AFTRA Deal Stirs Concerns on Artificial Intelligence and Pensions
SAG-AFTRA leaders are beginning the process of selling their new studio contract to the membership, amid lingering concerns about artificial intelligence and the merger of two pension funds. The deal, unveiled on Monday, allows studios to use synthetic performers only if they bring “significant additional value” to a project. It also requires studios to notify and bargain with the union if they license performances for AI training.
Source: SAG-AFTRA Deal Stirs Concerns on Artificial Intelligence and Pensions
The Demi Moore-AI Debate Is Missing the Point
Yes, celebrities are making all sorts of cringey comments on AI, but lambasting them for acknowledging the technology is here, likely already endemic, and even comes with some compelling use cases isn’t progressing the conversation. AI is currently shaping our digital and material lives in ways that are useful and exciting and noxious and terrifying, often through mechanisms that are mostly beyond the consumptive or creative purview of any one person.