From Stuart Dredge at MusicAlly:
The music industry has been clear on its views about training musical AIs: licensing deals are required. But what should those licensing deals look like? A new white paper written by Professor Daniel J. Gervais of Vanderbilt Law School offers some ideas on that.
It has been published by Fair Trade Music International, a non-profit organisation backed by a number of collecting societies and music-creator bodies. Its key recommendation is the creation of a new remuneration right.
‘The best way for creators to generate a decent stream of ongoing revenue for the use of their copyrighted works by GenAI applications is to be paid when the datasets used to train GenAI containing their works are used to create new ‘content’. This should take the form of a license’, explains the executive summary.
The important thing here is that this right would be applied to the output of AI models rather than the input, although Gervais suggests that it could sit alongside a licensing regime for the inputs (the training process) too.”
