A.I. Music and Copyright Laws: Is It Legal For You To Use AI-Created Songs?
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Under US copyright law, artificially generated music is covered by the Fair Use doctrine.
What is Fair Use?
The first section of US copyright law states that every work shall fall under the fair use doctrine. This doctrine states that one may use a copyrighted work for three main purposes. When a musical composition, sound recording, or artwork was created to be a vehicle for other creativity. Fair use will allow you to use the composition to enhance your work.
Music Copyright Laws
Despite the constant creation of new songs, songwriters have been successful in capturing the existing copyright laws. One of the things that most music copyright laws do is allow for a small copyright so that artists can be paid when their music is played. As a result, most songs that are legally played do not cost you anything. In a similar way, a generator that generates music and lyrics that is commercially viable, will not have to pay any artist royalties. As long as an AI generator generates music that meets the requirements of the copyright laws, copyright laws do not apply to the music.
How is AI Music Produced?
Music, melody, and lyrics are made up of a sequence of units called Melodic Units (MU), which contain tones or syllables. AI has a sophisticated and fast learning algorithm that mimics the human brain's natural neural networks. Therefore, when you feed an algorithm samples from the internet or through hand-written data, the algorithm predicts the next Melodic Unit based on the previous Melodic Unit that it has encountered. The algorithm learns the audio structure automatically and gets more accurate over time.
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