Beatport and Beatdapp team up to tackle music-streaming fraud

 

Anti-fraud startup Beatdapp continues to make headlines with its data on just how many music streams might be illegitimate – most recently in a Sky News story suggesting that criminals might be making up to $3bn a year from streaming fraud. Now the company has announced its latest partnership with a music service trying to tackle this. Electronic music-focused DSP Beatport is going to be using Beatdapp’s fraud-detection technology.

Source: Beatport and Beatdapp team up to tackle music-streaming fraud

YouTube will use AI to snip copyrighted music and not silence your whole video

YouTube is turning to artificial intelligence to try to simultaneously appease copyright holders of songs while making life a little easier for those who upload videos with songs they don’t have permission to use. Instead of just taking down a video with copyrighted audio the uploader doesn’t own, they can use a new AI tool to remove the protected song without erasing the rest of the video’s audio track.

Source: YouTube will use AI to snip copyrighted music and not silence your whole video

Hollywood Stars to Narrate Audio Content Posthumously 

In a move that blends Hollywood nostalgia with cutting-edge technology, a new frontier is being charted by AI company ElevenLabs. They’re set to revive the voices of iconic Hollywood stars like Judy Garland, James Dean, and Burt Reynolds for their latest Reader app, slated to transform written text into dynamic audio experiences.

Source: Hollywood Stars to Narrate Audio Content Posthumously — AI In Hollywood

New AI Training Technique Is Drastically Faster, Says Google 

Google’s DeepMind researchers have unveiled a new method to accelerate AI training, significantly reducing the computational resources and time needed to do the work. This new approach to the typically energy-intensive process could make AI development both faster and cheaper, according to a recent research paper—and that could be good news for the environment.

Source: New AI Training Technique Is Drastically Faster, Says Google – Decrypt

Warner Music Warns AI Companies About Unlicensed Training

Warner Music Group has formally warned AI companies of training their models on protected media and other assets without a license. WMG forwarded the relevant notice to a number of high-profile artificial intelligence players, several of which are grappling with litigation over alleged copyright infringement. And that litigation centers mainly on the media, apparently including copyrighted works, used to train the underlying AI systems.

Source: Warner Music Warns AI Companies About Unlicensed Training

‘Landmark Victory’: Copyright Office Finalizes Rule Change On Streaming Royalties

The U.S. Copyright Office has finalized a new rule aimed at ensuring that songwriters who invoke termination rights to regain control of their music will actually start getting paid streaming royalties after they do so. The provision, issued on Tuesday, will overturn what the Copyright Office called an “erroneous” earlier policy by the Mechanical Licensing Collective, which critics feared would have kept sending money from streamers like Spotify to former owners in perpetuity, long after a songwriter took back ownership.

Source: ‘Landmark Victory’: Copyright Office Finalizes Rule Change On Streaming Royalties

Tool preventing AI mimicry cracked; artists wonder what’s next

Designed to help prevent style mimicry and even poison AI models to discourage data scraping without an artist’s consent or compensation, The Glaze Project’s tools are now in higher demand than ever. But just as Glaze’s userbase is spiking, a bigger priority for the Glaze Project has emerged: protecting users from attacks disabling Glaze’s protections—including attack methods exposed in June by online security researchers in Zurich, Switzerland.

Source: Tool preventing AI mimicry cracked; artists wonder what’s next

UK music bodies welcome new government with policy requests

The UK will have a new government this morning, after the Labour party won a landslide in its general election. British music bodies have been quick to welcome the new administration, but also to remind it of their key policy requests. “The incoming Labour Government has been elected on a platform to implement a plan for the creative sector as part of its industrial strategy. The potential of the UK music industry to contribute to growth must be at the heart of this plan,” UK Music head Tom Kiehl said.

Source: UK music bodies welcome new government with policy requests

AI Content Detectors Don’t Work (The Biggest Mistakes They Have Made)

A copywriter ran the Declaration of Independence through an AI content detector. The result? It’s 98.51% AI-generated, despite being written in 1776. But is this mistake a one-off, or reflective of AI content detectors in general? “AI content detectors don’t work,” said Dianna Mason, SEO content specialist whose research uncovered the Declaration of Independence assessment.

Source: AI Content Detectors Don’t Work (The Biggest Mistakes They Have Made)

The Skydance Vision for a New Paramount: ‘Stability’ for Creatives and Tech Savvy

Now that Shari Redstone has signed on the dotted line to sell her father’s media empire to Skydance and RedBird Capital, what future awaits? First, and perhaps most importantly, Skydance is dropping $1.5 billion on Paramount’s balance sheet – a cash infusion that hopes to embolden the studio to woo creatives with “stability.”

Source: The Skydance Vision for a New Paramount: Cash Injection, ‘Stability’ for Creatives and Tech Savvy

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