The Labels Aren’t Fighting AI. They’re Buying Into It. So Where Is the Indie Artist’s Equity?

Making a Scene Presents - The Labels Aren’t Fighting AI. They’re Buying Into It. So Where Is the Indie Artist’s Equity?

For the last few years, independent musicians have been handed a very simple story about artificial intelligence. AI was the thing coming for your songs, your voice, your recording career, your session work and, if the more dramatic headlines were to be believed, possibly the last decent cup of coffee in the control room. Artists were warned about scraped catalogs, cloned voices, machine-generated recordings and giant technology companies building enormous businesses from human creative work without asking permission first. A lot of those warnings were legitimate, because the questions around copyright, consent, attribution, training data and compensation are real, unresolved and currently being fought over in courtrooms, licensing offices and corporate boardrooms.

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