YouTube is reportedly in talks with several major labels over an AI music licensing deal that could offer one-off payments in exchange for access to...
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The 'big three' labels aka Warner, Universal and Sony have allegedly been approached with offers of "lump sums of cash"
Both startups are being sued $150,000 per allegedly infringed work
The software flags clauses for concern, mistakes and omissions within lengthy and complex documents
“Crushing a piano, trumpet, and guitar evokes the same primal horrific sacrilege as watching books burn”
The new deal also addresses the issue of generative AI in music
The UK cross-party report comes as FKA twigs spoke to a US Senate subcommittee on intellectual property about her own AI deepfake tools and the importance of artist agency
AI tool Udio has launched with the backing of musicians will.i.am and Common
The AI model has been trained on over 2000 hours of the Dutch artist's original music and recordings from more than 1000 live shows
The new AI-powered tool introduces new revolutionary audio editing functionality
HitNMix is launching its innovative RipX DAW in a new format built specifically for Apple’s XR headset
DJ Fresh’s new platform lets users convert their voices to other singers using AI
Among the findings, 79% of people felt that "human creativity remains essential to the creation of music."
Charli XCX, Sia and Demi Legato are joining the experiment
Alongside deep fake videos, music 'mimicking' real artists will also be targeted, with penalties including account suspension
A Pirate Studios survey showed that 52% of artists would keep their AI use a secret
The worldwide premiere of ‘Intermundium’ is set for October 27th
Emerging technology has left the DAW at a crossroads. A combination of legacy code, compatibility restrictions and a user base who expect their favourite tools to remain familiar has left music-making software lacking innovation. As the pandemic, cloud-computing and generative AI shift expectations of how music-making tools should look and feel, Declan McGlynn asks: will the DAW adapt or die?
Sampling has been a central pillar of music production in the 30-odd years since MPCs hit the shelves, crucial to the development of hip-hop, breakbeat, house, jungle, and countless splinter styles across the dance spectrum. In the decades since, ever-shifting technology has slowly vaporised the analogue world that sampling was built from. Here, Chal Ravens asks: how is the culture of sampling evolving?
"The vocals were not legally obtained, the vocals were not cleared by the label or the artists and the song is not commercially available", the Recording Academy CEO said in a new statement