Universal Music has again called on the streaming platforms to play their part in ensuring that generative AI tools are not infringing the copyrights of the music industry.
Though this time it stresses that that also involves removing music created by copyright infringing AI technologies, as well as stopping said technologies from scraping the music stored on their servers.The latest statement has been issued after another AI-created Drake track caught everyone’s attention.
I guess, given Drake’s status as one of the biggest artists in the world today, it’s unsurprising that music-making AI is being used to create new Drake tracks.
Though, I think we can all agree, the human Drake has already created far more Drake tracks than we really need, and we definitely don’t need the robots joining in.At the weekend, Drake responded to an unofficial AI-created track in which his voice seemed to be performing a version of Ice Spice’s ‘Munch (Feelin U)’, stating on Instagram that “this is the final straw”.However, Universal’s statement was prompted by a track uploaded by someone going by the name Ghostwriter, in which a fake Drake performs a song called ‘Heart On My Sleeve’ accompanied by an also AI-generated The Weeknd.
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