Last month, the International Standards Organization (ISO) gave final approval to a new, open technical standard for a machine-readable content identifier that could provide creators and rights owners with a powerful new tool to regulate the use of their works in a variety of contexts.
Unlike other product or works identifiers, such as the music industry’s ISRC and ISWC standards that are typically assigned to a work or file by an outside authority or industry body, the new International Standard Content Code (ISCC) is algorithmically derived from the media file itself, and can be used for any type of digital media content, from text to music to images.
Meta has now released five new AI models to the public – all dealing with familiar things like image-to-text and image generation. But there’s also a new audio generation model, Jasco, which Meta says “is comparable to the evaluated baselines considering generation quality.”
The EU’s Digital Markets Act, often called the DMA, enacted far-reaching restrictions on big technology companies and digital competition. One requirement was for interoperability, meaning developing software that could work across operating systems and hardware, making it easier for consumers to move their data or switch providers.
Startups need large amounts of data, storage and chip capacity to be able to train their AI chatbots, which is where regulators believe the tech giants hold too much power. There is some evidence that smaller players are being forced into exclusive, opaque deals to run technology from Nvidia, Microsoft and their rivals, which can give the already dominant players an even bigger advantage.
Officially launching this summer, MicDrop is a real-time (AU, VST3, AAX) plug-in compatible with all major digital audio workstations (DAWs). UMG and SoundLabs’ collaboration will enable UMG artists to create custom vocal models that will be available for their exclusive creative use cases, and not available to the general public.