Washington Just Changed the AI Music Fight

Making a Scene Presents - Washington Just Changed the AI Music Fight If AI Training Becomes Fair Use, Independent Artists Need a Bigger Rights StrategyFor the last several years, the music business has been circling one giant question about artificial intelligence: whether AI companies should have to pay for the copyrighted music they use to train their models. That debate has attracted artists, record labels, publishers, technology companies, lawyers, lobbyists and enough venture capital to make almost any musician suspicious. The basic argument has always sounded simple. Creators say their work has value and should not be fed into commercial systems without permission or compensation, while AI companies argue that models learn from existing material in ways that can qualify as fair use. What changed this week is that the U.S. government stepped much more clearly into that argument, and Washington is leaning toward giving AI developers considerable freedom to train on copyrighted material. http://www.makingascene.org