As the major players in the music industry increasingly warm up to the idea of AI agents training on their enormous catalogues (for we imagine, enormous sums) the fear that music creators and rightful financial stakeholders will not be able to have a say in how their work is used is a more pertinent concern than ever.
We’ve previously reported on the legal issues surrounding generative AI music brands Udio and Suno - who are still in the midst of copyright infringement lawsuits levelled at them by 'the big three' major labels. Suno and Udio both offer users the ability to generate music via a text prompt. The resulting audio is constructed using an algorithm trained on a large quantity of (human) recorded music.
But a new Bloomberg report has recently revealed that the controversial AI firms have entered into discussions with the very same labels that originally sued them; Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment. The negotiations, it is understood, are an attempt to both draw a close to the litigation and establish a framework for how major labels can strike deals on catalogue-training with AI bodies.
The Bloomberg report has been fuelled by sources apparently close to the discussions, however the sources refused to be identified as the talks ‘could fall apart’.
