Musical AI and Beatoven.ai’s collaborative project, set to launch in the second half of 2025, aims to “ensure rights holders are compensated for every use of their repertoire.” The platform will be built on Beatoven.ai’s technology, training on a catalog of over3 million songs, loops, samples, and sounds. Musical AI will provide data licensing, attribution of generated outputs, and payments to rightsholders.
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Senate Bill Eyes Transparency in Use of Copyrighted Works
Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) introduced the Transparency and Responsibility for Artificial Intelligence Networks (TRAIN) Act on Monday in the latest effort to shield songwriters, musicians and other creators from the unauthorized use of their works in training generative AI models. If successful, the legislation would grant copyright holders access to training records, enabling them to verify if their creations were used.
Source: Senate Bill Targets AI ‘Black Box’ Problem, Eyes Transparency in Use of Copyrighted Works
Spotify Launches Analytics Platform for Audiobook Publishers, Authors
Spotify has launched Spotify for Authors, an analytics and promotion platform for its audiobook division, which currently hosts more than 300,000 titles. The platform, modeled after Spotify’s existing tools for musicians and podcast creators, aims to provide publishers and authors with data-driven insights about their audiobook performance.
Source: Spotify Launches Analytics Platform for Audiobook Publishers, Authors
News Corp adds Google-powered AI summaries to Factiva search results
Dow Jones-owned business intelligence search engine Factiva is adding generative AI summaries to its search results. The news database has deployed Google’s Gemini technology as part of News Corp’s ongoing business partnership with the tech giant. Factiva approached every one of its almost 4,000 sources for new generative AI permissions and received the go-ahead from a “significant subset” of them according to general manager Traci Mabrey.
Source: News Corp adds Google-powered AI summaries to Factiva search results
Publishers hooked on Google Discover traffic risk race to the bottom
For many news publishers around the world Google Discover is now their primary source of traffic. Research from NewzDash, a news performance monitoring tool, shows that on average Discover accounts for 55% of publishers’ total Google traffic. This is up from 41% in a previous study. Yet it’s a risky strategy to rely on Discover traffic. Several Googlers are on record saying sites shouldn’t rely on Discover.
Source: Publishers hooked on Google Discover traffic risk race to the bottom
Can Google’s Watermark Tool Save the Internet from AI Slop?
Google DeepMind, in collaboration with Hugging Face, open sourced its research titled ‘Scalable watermarking for identifying large language model outputs’ in a bid to distinguish between human and AI content on the internet, driven by LLMs. Launched exactly a year ago, SynthID, their watermarking tool, is now available for wider access.
Source: Can Google’s Watermark Tool Save the Internet from AI Slop?
Ziff Davis study says AI firms rely on publisher data to train models
Leading AI companies rely more on content from premium publishers to train their large language models (LLMs) than they publicly admit, according to new research from executives at Ziff Davis. While AI firms generally do not say exactly what data they use for training, executives from Ziff Davis say their analysis of publicly available datasets makes it clear that AI firms rely disproportionately on commercial publishers of news and media websites to train their LLMs.
Source: Ziff Davis study says AI firms rely on publisher data to train models
MIDiA: State of the independent music economy: Fragmentation AND consolidation
Source: State of the independent music economy: Fragmentation AND consolidation
Meta joins others reinventing search with AI
Meta is reportedly working on AI-powered search to reduce its dependency on Microsoft and Google. The development comes during a season where many vendors are finding new opportunities with search using generative AI. For example, Google — the clear leader in search up to now — has transformed its longstanding search strategy with AI Overviews, a feature that summarizes search results, provides product comparisons and performs other generative AI-powered services, over the past year.
Source: Meta joins others reinventing search with AI | TechTarget
Google’s AI search summaries are rolling out to over 100 more countries
Google’s AI Overviews are expanding across more than 100 countries this week. The AI-generated search summaries will appear for users in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Colombia, Chile, the Phillippines, Nigeria, and many more locations. You can view the full list of countries on Google’s website. In each country, AI Overviews will now appear in any supported language, including English, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish.
Source: Google’s AI search summaries are rolling out to over 100 more countries