The only way to solve streaming fraud is to switch from a pro-rata payment model to a user-centric payment model. A “user-centric” payment model functions completely differently. If you pay $10 for a streaming subscription and you listen to only one artist this month, that one artist gets all of your $10 – less the platform’s commission. This payment model incentivizes fandom instead of fraud.
Source: AI Isn’t the Music Industry’s Biggest Problem: Here’s How to Stop Streaming Fraud Right Now
YouTube’s latest transparency report shows that the number of Content ID system claims has reached a new high. During the second half of last year, the advanced copyright tool flagged over 826 million issues, nearly all automated. Through monetization options, these Content ID claims generate roughly $1.5 billion in additional annual payouts to rightsholders.
Source: YouTube Copyright ID Claims Reach a New High * TorrentFreak
The suits alleges, among other things, that OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Meta’s LLaMA were trained on illegally-acquired datasets containing their works, which they say were acquired from “shadow library” websites like Bibliotik, Library Genesis, Z-Library, and others, noting the books are “available in bulk via torrent systems.”
Source: Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement
With the accessibility of AI voice training technology, the question remains how the music industry will adapt to this new technology? Producer and DJ, DJ Fresh believes he has the answer, so he’s teamed up with software developer Nico Pellerin to forge a new path. VoiceSwap aims to create AI voice models that have been authorized by the artist.
Source: Is Voice Licensing A Future Revenue Stream for Artists?
Mona Awad and Paul Tremblay allege that their books, which are copyrighted, were ‘used to train’ ChatGPT because the chatbot generated ‘very accurate summaries’ of the works. The complaint said that OpenAI “unfairly” profits from “stolen writing and ideas” and calls for monetary damages on behalf of all US-based authors whose works were allegedly used to train ChatGPT.
Source: Authors file a lawsuit against OpenAI for unlawfully ‘ingesting’ their books
Laws in both the US and the UK stipulate that, when it comes to copyright, only humans can claim authorship. So for a game like AI Dungeon, where the platform allows a player to, essentially, “write” a narrative with the help of a chatbot, claims of ownership can get murky: Who owns the output? The company that developed the AI, or the user?
Source: Generative AI in Games Will Create a Copyright Crisis
Valve PR representative Kaci Boyle said the company’s goal is “not to discourage the use of [AI] on Steam; instead, we’re working through how to integrate it into our already-existing review policies.” She went on to say that the company’s current review process takes into account current copyright law, and that “while developers can use these AI technologies in their work… they can not infringe on existing copyrights.”
Source: Valve won’t approve Steam games that use copyright-infringing AI artwork
Google will be removing links to Canadian news in Search, News, and Discover following the recent passage of the Online News Act in Canada, according to a blog post by Kent Walker, Google’s president of global affairs. The law, also called Bill C-18, forces big tech companies like Google and Meta to pay news publishers for their content.
The music community is at the center of the AI conversation, partly because at this stage it’s one of the easiest art forms to understand the impact of AI —everyone’s heard a fake Drake or a fake McCartney by now. But it’s not the end, just the beginning of something new. There is a great opportunity to understand it, collaborate with it, and seize the opportunities it generates.
Our proposal is simple. When Big Tech companies produce output from generative AI that was trained on public data, they would pay a tiny licensing fee, by the word or pixel or relevant unit of data. Those fees would go into the AI Dividend fund. Every few months, the Commerce Department would send out the entirety of the fund, split equally, to every resident nationwide. That’s it.