On Monday local time, the Recording Industry Association of America sued two AI music startups, claiming that their generative AI tools allegedly infringed on the music copyright .
What exactly does this lawsuit include? How do people in the industry view the controversy over copyright protection in AI entrepreneurship?
On Monday local time, the Recording Industry Association of America (riaa), which represents several of the largest companies in the music recording industry, sued two AI music startups, accusing them of allegedly infringing music copyrights when training AI tools, a move that further intensifies artificial intelligence. Legal risks faced by the smart industry.
Members of the Recording Industry Association of America include Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group, etc. The two companies they sued were named suno and audio. Both of the two AI music startups allow users to directly generate songs through text prompts only, and both companies are at the top level in the field of generative AI music making.
suno cooperates with the technology giant Microsoft and can be used through Microsoft's AI assistant copilot. It released its first product last year and claims more than 10 million people have used its tools to make music. In addition, suno recently announced that it has raised US$125 million in a new round of financing.
udio was founded by former Google researchers and was supported by a16z, a well-known Silicon Valley venture capital institution. In April this year, the company raised US$10 million in funding. An AI music previously produced through audio also became popular on social media in the United States.
Record companies claim that the works of musicians of different genres and eras have been used infringingly by two AI music companies without consent or payment. Now the Recording Industry Association of America is demanding that the two companies be prohibited from using these infringing materials and compensated loss.
requires the two companies to pay up to $150,000 in compensation for each infringed work.. The lawsuit against suno was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, and the case against audio was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Mitch Glazer, CEO of the Recording Industry Association of America, said in a statement that the lawsuit is necessary to stop the blatant infringement of the two AI music companies, and it is also to ensure that humans can develop and generate music responsibly, ethically and legally. Important principles of AI.
Previously, industry insiders from AI startups pointed out in an interview with CNBC that currently lacks a clear boundary in copyright supervision in the field of generative AI startups.
Many musicians are now calling for the formulation of new laws to protect music copyright. In the US state of Tennessee, lawmakers updated an old law to explicitly ban imitations of musicians' voices without permission.
Source: CCTV Finance
