The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is sounding the alarm over the potential for AI piracy as the technology begins to proliferate across the music technology field.
The emerging prominence of AI extractors, mixers and the like raises some interesting questions about creator ethics. Can artificial intelligence infringe on a person’s copyright? Also, is AI-generated content itself copyrightable?
While questions remain, the RIAA is actively taking a strong stance against many branches of AI-generated content. In its latest report to the US Trade Representative, the RIAA targeted certain digital services designed to use existing copyrighted materials to create derivative works.
“There are online services that, supposedly using artificial intelligence (AI), extract, or rather, copy, the vocals, instrumentals, or some parts of the instrumentals from a sound recording, and/or generate, -master or remix a recording. very similar to or nearly as good as reference tracks by selected, well-known sound recording artists,” the RIAA states.
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Songmastr and Acapella-Extractor are two of the programs suspected of AI piracy that are clearly mentioned in the report, although the management of these services is reported to be unaware that a complaint has been submitted. They are joined by many bootleg download platforms, torrent sites and others.
“To the extent that these services, or their partners, train their AI models using our members’ music, that use is unauthorized and violates our members’ rights by creating a non- authorized copies of our working members,” the RIAA report added. “In any event, the files distributed on these services are not authorized copies or unauthorized source music works of our members.”
You can read the full report HEREEVERY TorrentFreak.