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It's a simple answer: remuneration. Songwriters get paid mechanical royalties, performance royalties, and synch fees anytime the song is used. Bands, for exam
by bsder 4y ago
It's a simple answer: remuneration.
Songwriters get paid mechanical royalties, performance royalties, and synch fees anytime the song is used. Bands, for example, only get paid when their specific recording gets played.
Therefore, if something gets remixed, covered, etc. you want to be the songwriter, not the band.
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- Buildstarted 4y agoReminds me of a story about Gene Roddenberry. (of Star Trek fame) Apparently he wrote lyrics to the original series theme song so that he'd get half the royalties every time it was played even though the lyrics weren't used. (Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, 1997, pp 178, 185)
- plastic3169 4y agoAlso Danny Elfman has joked that it turned out financially very important that he sang the words The Simpsons in the theme song.
- leovander 4y agoBryan Cranston on Malcolm in the Middle[0]. [0] https://youtu.be/yuGjVKOQc98?t=22 https://youtu.be/yuGjVKOQc98?t=22
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- echelon 4y agoMaybe this is how AI will work. Every contributor to the data set gets micropennies per inference century (a reasonable measure). Of course future industrial foundational models will be bought and paid for (and royalty free) for the companies that assemble them.
- bombolo 4y agoThe entire point of AI currently is to NOT remunerate.
- solarmist 4y agoSure, but once it becomes commercially useful in creative works that will likely change.
- delecti 4y agoI suspect the mechanism of that will be that Disney lawyers and/or lobbyists will start throwing their weight around once AI trained on Disney media is making money for someone other than Disney.
- clouddrover 4y agoGetty Images is suing Stability AI for copyright infringement: https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/6/23587393/ai-art-copyright-lawsuit-getty-images-stable-diffusion https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/6/23587393/ai-art-copyright-... It's a bit hard to argue against. Stable Diffusion was trained on Getty's images and it does reproduce them, watermark included. Getty Images will win the case.
- fsckboy 4y agoGetty would still need to prove actual harm, like from use of those images.
- Gigachad 4y agoDisney IP is still safe. The tech can generate new content but it still isn’t legal to distribute.
- echelon 4y agoWe don't know that yet.
- rock_hard 4y agoYou are spot on Another factor here is that you never know which one of your or your teams songs will be a hit…and so many have a agreement to include eachother in their work Little bit how VC funds work
- consumer451 4y agoSimon Cowell is known to have played (and written the part for) instruments like the triangle on many of his associated bands' tracks so that he got an undeserved cut of the songwriting royalties.
- raverbashing 4y agoA bit surprising, but it fits the part