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In my opinion with the recent Ice Spice song and AI generated Drake, I feel like an artists voice and likeness should be covered by copyright laws. It’s kind of

In my opinion with the recent Ice Spice song and AI generated Drake, I feel like an artists voice and likeness should be covered by copyright laws. It’s kind of absurd that someone could make a song with someone else’s voice, and not pay royalties of any sort. David Guetta released a song a few months ago with an AI sample, so he may be the pioneer of this new era. He said he used an online text generator to create an Eminem rap verse. He then copied the text and pasted into another website to generate Eminem’s voice. He said he did it to just mess around with AI and being creative, but he didn’t agree that it should be legal for him to do that. https://youtu.be/lm-o6joqChc https://youtu.be/lm-o6joqChc

logicchains 4y ago
>In my opinion with the recent Ice Spice song and AI generated Drake, I feel like an artists voice and likeness should be covered by copyright laws. It’s kind of absurd that someone could make a song with someone else’s voice, and not pay royalties of any sort. It's absurd that someone could think it's fair to send men with guns to make someone pay them just for copying how they speak/sing. And unprecedented; imagine if Elvis' estate was allowed to go after every Elvis impersonator who sung non-Elvis songs in Elvis' accent!
- hoofhearted 4y ago
  Impersonation is a bit different. I wasn’t thinking about men with guns. I was referring to the current music copyright and royalty laws that are upheld by groups like RIAA. You can legally sample another artists music, even without their permission or knowing. However, they have to be given credit, and everyone inline that was involved with the original song composition get a royalty. An example of this was Jay-z’s 99 problems. Somewhere in the 90’s, Too Short mentioned to Ice T that “he had 99 problems, but a B wasn’t one”.. Ice T thought that was slick and wrote a song. A couple years later, Rick Rubin and Jay-z borrowed that hook and put out a hit. Ice T said that he didn’t know they had recorded the song, and he only found out when he heard it on the radio. He said it was all cool though because he received writing credits, and royalty payments as a result.
polishdude20 4y ago
What about every impersonator? What if you just happen to sound like Drake? Who owns that voice?
- hoofhearted 4y ago
  Cover bands and parodies are already covered by current copyright laws. This is a bit different, and is a bit uncharted.

logicchains 4y ago

>In my opinion with the recent Ice Spice song and AI generated Drake, I feel like an artists voice and likeness should be covered by copyright laws. It’s kind of absurd that someone could make a song with someone else’s voice, and not pay royalties of any sort. It's absurd that someone could think it's fair to send men with guns to make someone pay them just for copying how they speak/sing. And unprecedented; imagine if Elvis' estate was allowed to go after every Elvis impersonator who sung non-Elvis songs in Elvis' accent!

hoofhearted 4y ago
Impersonation is a bit different. I wasn’t thinking about men with guns. I was referring to the current music copyright and royalty laws that are upheld by groups like RIAA. You can legally sample another artists music, even without their permission or knowing. However, they have to be given credit, and everyone inline that was involved with the original song composition get a royalty. An example of this was Jay-z’s 99 problems. Somewhere in the 90’s, Too Short mentioned to Ice T that “he had 99 problems, but a B wasn’t one”.. Ice T thought that was slick and wrote a song. A couple years later, Rick Rubin and Jay-z borrowed that hook and put out a hit. Ice T said that he didn’t know they had recorded the song, and he only found out when he heard it on the radio. He said it was all cool though because he received writing credits, and royalty payments as a result.

polishdude20 4y ago

What about every impersonator? What if you just happen to sound like Drake? Who owns that voice?

hoofhearted 4y ago
Cover bands and parodies are already covered by current copyright laws. This is a bit different, and is a bit uncharted.