Kate Duckworth: New Zealand Chair of the Intellectual Property Society on the copyright claim made against AI music companies
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AI has gotten two start-ups in hot water.  Their use of AI for music creation has resulted in them being sued by three of the world’s largest record labels: Sony, Universal Music Group, and Warner Records.  They say that the AI firms are making money from copied songs, and want $150,000 in compensation for each song that has allegedly been copied.  The New Zealand Chair of the Intellectual Property Society, Kate Duckworth, told Mike Hosking that this is likely to be the first of many cases.  She said that the defence is likely going to be that it was fair use —a strong defence in the United States— or that the songs were transformative works, as was claimed in a case about Andy Warhol.  LISTEN ABOVE  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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