Canadian rap artist Drake was forced to pull a diss track he had produced that used an AI-generated voice of Tupac Shakur.
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With the click of a button, you can now generate songs in any topic and genre you want. But it’s not clear-cut whether you own the music, despite what the app terms say.
How can users of AI tools like OpenAI’s Sora video generator be sure they aren’t producing copyright-violating content?
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Prosecraft creator Benji Smith believed he was honouring copyright laws, while using more than 25,000 books without authors’ consent. What does the law say? A copyright expert explains.
Mona Awad and Paul Tremblay’s lawsuit claims their books were used without their consent. But copyright protection doesn’t apply to ideas – they’ll need to demonstrate the likelihood of economic loss.
Still from ‘All watched over by machines of loving grace’ by Memo Akten, 2021. Created using custom AI software.
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Robert Mahari, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Jessica Fjeld, Harvard Law School, and Ziv Epstein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Intellectual property law wasn’t written with AI in mind, so it isn’t clear who owns the images that emerge from prompts – or if the artists whose work was scraped to train AI models should be paid.