UMG is taking a straightforward instance of impersonation (it was advertised as Drake and The Weeknd if I recall correctly and the song contained references to

UMG is taking a straightforward instance of impersonation (it was advertised as Drake and The Weeknd if I recall correctly and the song contained references to the singers' lives from the first person) and they are trying to snatch everything. Which is exactly what should be expected and watched for from the greedy music execs. They are going further than saying "take this song down" and are trying to go after training on any copyrighted data. It's a massive snatch and grab and a bit of a bait and switch too. Straightforward impersonation that presents an AI voice as any specific human shouldn't be permitted, and US law is pretty clear on that I think. But an AI vocals system that works like stable diffusion where you ask for a voice with certain vocal characteristics that has been trained on copyrighted music? That's a VERY different thing and is much murkier. IMO it should be allowed, but what's clear is that the law doesn't know if it's allowed yet (in the US anyway).