Lawyer Monthly
As intellectual property law struggles to keep up with the needs of an evolving world, music is one of the most dynamic and contentious fields. As legal systems around the globe have struggled for decades to define the boundaries of ownership, originality, and fair use in the music industry, the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) as a creative force has triggered a paradigmatic revolution in our understanding of authorship and rights.
Now, music is not only created by humans using instruments and intention; it’s also created by algorithms trained on large datasets of other songs, sounds, and styles. That presents some complicated questions: Who owns the copyright on a song written by a machine? Can an algorithm be considered an author? And what’s the consequence when such machine-generated content borrows too heavily from copyrighted works?
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