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Following this consultation, the UK government intends to amend copyright law to make it easier to analyse material for the purposes of machine learning, research and innovation. This will promote the use of AI technology, and wider “data mining” techniques, for the public good. he Government intends that anyone with lawful access to material protected by copyright should be able to carry out this analysis without further permission from the copyright owner.

Source: Artificial Intelligence and IP: copyright and patents

Without the human and aesthetic nuance needed for fiction, informational content, including much nonfiction, can be very effectively rendered by machine voices, especially if the operation providing them does rigorous testing for mispronunciations, syntax gaffes, and so on. Text to speech can offer a far more affordable route, both in time and money, to getting backlisted titles onto the busy audiobook market.

Source: Germany’s Bookwire Now Offers Artificial Narration for Audiobooks

hyprAUDIO is a sync-specific search engine that can sift through hundreds of thousands of tracks by tapping into the power of AI. Even better, searches can be triggered by using example audio clips instead of descriptive terms. That’s something music supervisors are already doing in their sync briefs, instead of using more cumbersome descriptive terms.

Source: How hyprAUDIO Is Using AI to Solve Sync Music Licensing Overload

Rapper and visual artist Latashá is a living embodiment of web3’s potential to support independent artists. She minted and successfully sold her first NFT in 2021 of a music video she had made — her first foray into the web3 world. Since then, she’s sold NFTs of her work for tens of thousands of dollars and has become a highly visible advocate for artists to leverage web3 technology.

Source: Web3 artist Latashá on educating creators about crypto’s ebbs and flows

On Tuesday, 35 technology companies—among them Meta (formerly known as Facebook), Microsoft, Alibaba, and Sony—announced their founding membership in an organization calling itself the Metaverse Standards Forum. The Forum’s stated goal: to foster coordination and cooperation among the hundreds of companies currently jockeying to create (or depending who you ask, dominate) the still-nascent metaverse.

Source: Meta, Microsoft and Other Tech Giants Say They Want an Open Metaverse—Should We Believe Them? – Decrypt

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced today that the company is rolling out more ways for creators to make money on Facebook and Instagram, and is also expanding some of its current monetization tools to more creators. Most notably, Zuckerberg announced that Meta is testing a designated place on Instagram where creators can get discovered and paid for content.

Source: Meta to roll out new monetization tools on Instagram and Facebook, including a creator marketplace

Want to see a picture of Jesus Christ laughing at a meme on his phone, Donald Trump as the Nevermind baby, or Karl Marx being slimed at the Nikelodeon Kid’s Choice awards? If you’ve been on Twitter or Instagram in the past couple of weeks, it’s been hard to miss odd-looking formulations of these kinds of scenarios in the form of AI art.

Source: From Trump Nevermind babies to deep fakes: DALL-E and the ethics of AI art

Production music heavyweight APM Music — owned by Sony Music Publishing and Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG) and  — is now taking its catalog into relatively uncharted waters. The company has just finalized an agreement with AI upstart XdMind, one that will open APM’s massive song library to AI-powered, ‘adaptive’ use for dynamic environments like games, short-form video snippets, the metaverse, and other fast-rising formats.

Source: APM Music Licenses Entire Catalog to XdMind for AI-Driven Adaptation

Krafton is best-known for games like PUBG and the upcoming Callisto Protocol — but today, it’s showing off something very different. The company is teasing a “virtual human” named Ana, which it says will “help establish” its Web3 ecosystem. The character was built using Unreal Engine along with what Krafton describes as “hyperrealism, rigging, and deep learning.”

Source: The company behind PUBG shows off its ‘hyper-realistic’ virtual human

A French government inquiry has concluded that future major sporting events should use blockchain for ticketing. The report follows the delay of more than half an hour to the start of the UEFA Champions League football final on May 28 after chaos at the ticket turnstiles resulting from counterfeit tickets.

Source: French government recommends blockchain after fiasco with UEFA Champion’s League tickets – Ledger Insights – blockchain for enterprise