{"id":1048,"date":"2024-07-10T06:19:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T06:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/?p=1048"},"modified":"2024-07-14T17:02:14","modified_gmt":"2024-07-14T17:02:14","slug":"world-largest-music-record-labels-sue-genai-startups-for-copyright-infringement-on-a-massive-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/world-largest-music-record-labels-sue-genai-startups-for-copyright-infringement-on-a-massive-scale\/","title":{"rendered":"World largest music record labels sue GenAI startups for copyright infringement on a “massive scale”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\nMusic industry giants allege mass copyright violation by AI firms<\/a>
\nUniversal Music Group, Sony Music, and Warner Records have sued AI music-synthesis companies Udio and Suno for allegedly committing mass copyright infringement by using recordings owned by the labels to train music-generating AI models, reports Reuters. Udio and Suno can generate novel song recordings based on text-based descriptions of music (i.e., “a dubstep song about Linus Torvalds”).

\n\nThe lawsuits, filed in federal courts in New York and Massachusetts, claim that the AI companies’ use of copyrighted material to train their systems could lead to AI-generated music that directly competes with and potentially devalues the work of human artists.

\n\nLike other generative AI models, both Udio and Suno (which we covered separately in April) rely on a broad selection of existing human-created artworks that teach a neural network the relationship between words in a written prompt and styles of music. The record labels correctly note that these companies have been deliberately vague about the sources of their training data. In the lawsuit, the record labels cite specific examples of AI-generated content that allegedly re-creates elements of well-known songs, including The Temptations’ “My Girl,” Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” and James Brown’s “I Got You (I Feel Good).” It also claims the music-synthesis models can produce vocals resembling those of famous artists, such as Michael Jackson and Bruce Springsteen.

\n\nUS Record Labels Sue AI Music Generators Suno and Udio for Copyright Infringement<\/a>
\nThe Recording Industry Association of America and record labels allege that the leading AI music generators trained on their artists\u2019 work without permission. A group of music labels including Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, and Sony Music Group has filed lawsuits in US federal court alleging copyright infringement on a \u201cmassive scale.\u201d

\n\nThe companies have not publicly disclosed what they trained their generators on. Ed Newton-Rex, a former AI executive who now runs the ethical AI nonprofit Fairly Trained, has written extensively about his experiments with Suno and Udio; Newton-Rex found that he could generate music that \u201cbears a striking resemblance to copyright songs.\u201d In the complaints, the music labels state that they were independently able to prompt Suno into producing outputs that \u201cmatch\u201d copyrighted work from artists ranging from ABBA to Jason Derulo.

\n\nOne example provided in the lawsuit describes how the labels generated songs extremely similar to Chuck Berry\u2019s 1958 rock hit \u201cJohnny B. Goode\u201d in Suno by using prompts like \u201c1950s rock and roll, rhythm & blues, 12 bar blues, rockabilly, energetic male vocalist, singer guitarist,\u201d along with snippets of the song\u2019s lyrics. One song almost exactly replicated the \u201cGo, Johnny, go\u201d chorus; the plaintiffs attached side-by-side transcriptions of the scores and argued that such overlap was only possible because Suno had trained on copyrighted work.

\n\nThe Udio lawsuit offers similar examples, noting that the labels were able to generate a dozen outputs resembling Mariah Carey\u2019s perennial hit \u201cAll I Want for Christmas Is You.\u201d It also offers a side-by-side comparison of music and lyrics, and notes that Mariah Carey soundalikes generated by Udio have already caught the attention of the public.

\n\nMajor Record Labels Sue AI Music Generators<\/a>
\nThe world\u2019s biggest record labels are suing two artificial intelligence startups, taking an aggressive stance to protect their intellectual property against technology that makes it easy for people to generate music based on existing songs. The Recording Industry Association of America said it filed twin lawsuits Monday against Suno AI and Uncharted Labs Inc., the developer of Udio AI, on behalf of Universal Music Group NV, Warner Music Group Corp. and Sony Music Entertainment. The complaints allege the companies are unlawfully training their AI models on massive amounts of copyrighted sound recordings.

\n\nMusic generated with the services can, at times, sound remarkably similar to copyrighted music. Ed Newton-Rex, CEO of nonprofit organization Fairly Trained, which provides certification for AI models trained on licensed data, said he found it easy to generate a slew of tunes using both companies\u2019 software that sound very much like artists such as Queen, Abba, Oasis, Blink-182 and Ed Sheeran.

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