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50,000 AI-music tracks are now uploaded to Deezer every day

Deezer says that roughly 50,000 fully AI-generated tracks are now uploaded every day, accounting for 34% of all music delivered to it. The new figures were published alongside the findings from a survey Deezer commissioned from Ipsos, covering 9,000 people in eight countries: the US, Japan, UK, Germany, France, Brazil, the Netherlands and Canada. The most eye-catching finding is that the survey involved respondents listening to two fully AI-generated tracks and one human song, then guessing which ones were AI. 97% failed the test.

Source: 50,000 AI-music tracks are now uploaded to Deezer every day

Publishing’s Survival Depends on Data, Says Elsevier Chairman

At last week’s Sharjah Publishers Conference, Y.S. Chi warned that publishers need to build richer data infrastructures or face extinction.  “No publisher will survive five years from today if they don’t have data,” he said last week at the 15th Sharjah Publishers Conference. “I don’t care how well you edit and publish books. If you don’t have data, you will make wrong decisions.” At the top of his agenda was addressing perhaps the most urgent threat to publishing: artificial intelligence. “You can’t do AI unless you have data,” Chi explained.

Source: Publishing’s Survival Depends on Data, Says Elsevier Chairman

Redditor Convicted for Sharing Nude Scenes in Landmark ‘Moral Rights’ Copyright Case

A Danish court has handed down a historic verdict, convicting a Reddit moderator in the country’s first-ever criminal case for violating copyright’s “right of respect”. The now 40-year-old man was given a 7-month suspended prison term for sharing 347 nude scenes featuring actresses from Danish films and TV shows on the “SeDetForPlottet” subreddit. The man also shared over 25 terabytes of pirated content on private torrent tracker Superbits.org.

Source: Redditor Convicted for Sharing Nude Scenes in Landmark ‘Moral Rights’ Copyright Case * TorrentFreak

Wikipedia Urges AI Companies to Stop Website Scraping

The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit behind Wikipedia, issued a call to artificial intelligence (AI) developers and companies to stop scraping information from the Wikipedia site and instead use its paid, opt-in API platform, Wikimedia Enterprise, to “responsibly” access its content. A Monday (Nov. 10) blog post explained that making Wikimedia Enterprise a paid service sustains Wikipedia’s global volunteer editor base and nonprofit funding model.

Source: Wikipedia Urges AI Companies to Stop Website Scraping | PYMNTS.com

Why Music Investors Flocked to South Florida for GoldState’s ‘Conversations in Music’

Goldstuck has been convening exclusive thought-leadership meetings for decades in his many roles. He’s the founder of The Sanctuary at Albany, a state-of-the-art recording studio and music academy in the Bahamas; the executive chairman of TouchTunes Interactive Networks. But the South African philanthropist said that this year’s event marked his first event of such scale and urgency, reflecting the speed at which industry dynamics are changing.

Source: Why Music Investors Flocked to South Florida for GoldState’s ‘Conversations in Music’

Spotify, NMPA Partner on New Audiovisual Revenue Stream for Music Creators

Spotify and the National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA) have joined forces to create a new opt-in license for NMPA members to enter into a direct license agreement for “expanded audiovisual rights” in the U.S., according to a press release about the deal. NMPA members can sign up using a portal, and the deal is said to increase the royalty-earning potential of participating publishers and writers by offering them a new audiovisual royalty stream.

Source: Spotify and NMPA Partner to Launch New Audiovisual Revenue Stream for Music Creators

GEMA wins landmark ruling against OpenAI over ChatGPT’s use of song lyrics

The court ruled on Tuesday (November 11) that OpenAI should have acquired licenses for German song lyrics in GEMA’s repertoire before using them to train and operate ChatGPT. The verdict marks the first time a European court has legally examined and ruled in favor of creators whose works have been used by generative AI systems. According to the ruling, ChatGPT’s systems contain copies of original works that are reproduced and made available in response to user prompts.

Source: GEMA wins landmark ruling against OpenAI over ChatGPT’s use of song lyrics

Songtradr CRO: Why Music Industry Fragmentation Is a ‘Massive’ Opportunity

It’s been a big, big year for the music industry, with roughly $4 billion plowed into catalogs and white-hot startups in the last quarter alone. But who’s gonna thread the disparate pieces of this industry together and unlock all that value? Among those looking to supercharge the industry’s future growth is Songtradr, a company rooted in sync that now touches diverse disciplines like superfandom, catalog licensing, indie music development, and music strategies for major brands.

Source: In-Depth: Songtradr Chief Revenue Officer Paul Langworthy

Internet Archive’s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost

The Internet Archive might sound like a thriving organization, but it only recently emerged from years of bruising copyright battles that threatened to bankrupt the beloved library project. In the end, the fight led to more than 500,000 books being removed from the Archive’s “Open Library.” “We survived,” Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle told Ars. “But it wiped out the Library.”

Source: Internet Archive’s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost

Amazon is testing an AI tool that automatically translates books into other languages

The company says the tool can translate entire books between English and Spanish and German to English. Amazon promises that more languages are coming down the pike. It’s available right now in a beta form to select authors enrolled in the Kindle Direct Publishing platform. There’s a broader rollout planned for a later date.

Source: Amazon is testing an AI tool that automatically translates books into other languages

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