Project description
Who owns AI-generated music?
AI-generated music is reshaping the global music scene. It is making creation easier, faster, and more accessible than ever. But with this innovation comes a tangle of legal questions. Who owns AI-generated music? Can it be copyrighted? What about the music used to train AI? As countries scramble to revise outdated laws, Europe faces a critical moment to safeguard creativity while upholding its core values. Supported by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the MusicLaw project steps in to meet this challenge. The project aims to create the world’s first international legal framework tailored to AI music. With an interdisciplinary, global approach, MusicLaw seeks solutions to ensure the digital music revolution does not leave artists or listeners behind.
Objective
Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) with its ability to generate music popularly known as AI Music, has potential to permanently change the music landscape. It presents us with both unprecedented opportunities and challenges - opportunities such as democratising music creation, increasing accessibility by reducing music production costs and time. It also opens pandora’s box of legal challenges such as copyrightability of AI Music, legal concerns at the input stage i.e. training of AI Music Engines/Models, at the output stage i.e. generation of AI Music and others. These legal challenges are not confined to a particular country or geographical area but are of global concern, demanding concerted global effort to arrive at global solution. The Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) comprising of 29 members including European Union, USA, United Kingdom and India, have highlighted need for exploring and deeper scrutiny of inter-alia various dimensions of AI including its legality and governance issues. Specifically for Europe, addressing these legal challenges will assist in ensuring secure, safe and sustainable digital transformation that puts people at the center, in line with core EU values and fundamental rights. AI music engines such as Suno and Udio are already in public domain. It becomes pivotal at this juncture, to explore, identify and address legal challenges posed by AI Music. Various countries are re-visiting, re-thinking and amending their copyright laws in light of the increasing AI capabilities. This postdoctoral project aims to conduct international, interdisciplinary and comparative study of the music copyright law using novel research methods, to fill the existing void, by developing first of its kind international legal framework specific to AI Music that accommodates the evolving dynamics of music ecosystem. It will also strengthen the 5 Pillars of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable development around which 17 SDG's are structured.
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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5020 Bergen
Norway
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