“Your Inside Track” is a newsletter about music and copyright law. In our latest edition, Music Industry Professors Don Franzen and Judith Finell cover the intricacies of AI and music copyright law.
Professor Franzen is an attorney specializing in the entertainment industry with 31+ years of experience. Professor Finell is a musicologist and testifying expert in copyright infringement disputes.
Some of their most recent articles have evaluated the following topics:
- Music Authorship in Al + Human Collaborations
- AI Litigation Round Up: Literary & Visual Art
- Deep Fake Fights: “Fake Drake” Songs
In her latest article in our latest edition, “Music AI + Human Collaborations,” Judith Finell argues that:
“Generative AI music poses a new layer of consideration in comparing musical works for possible copyright infringement. This new layer would be to distinguish between the human creator and the machine creator in cases of collaborative works. For example, if the lyrics were created by AI, while the melody/harmonies by a human creator, the musicologist may be asked to distinguish between them and possibly to disregard any machine-made elements, while considering the interrelation of compositional features by humans and machines. Thus, an argument may also be raised in terms of the musical influence that the AI-created components had over the human-created elements, as melodic features in vocal works, for example, are impacted by word length, syllabic divisions, and phrasing.”
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