Legal and Ethical Challenges of AI-Generated Music
Behind the promise of easily accessible AI-generated music lies a silent realignment of responsibilities, where uncertainty regarding copyright is becoming the norm. This ownership vacuum effectively shifts the legal and financial risk to the producers. Music supervisors face growing… challenges, notes Chris Castle in a post published on Music Technology Policy. Risks associated with the use of music generated by artificial intelligence (AI). This raises questions regarding logistics, contracting, and insurance. Platforms such as Suno and Udio offer AI-generated music tracks, but they create unprecedented uncertainty regarding the chain of ownership and copyright, thereby shifting legal and financial risk to the productions that use them. Furthermore, it is difficult for « music supervisors » to determine the origin of the tracks, creating a « ownership gap » that complicates rights…