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Cover bands are bands playing other peoples' music. That's an expected use case in our legal system, and the authors of the music are compensated as mandated by
by cjensen 3y ago
Cover bands are bands playing other peoples' music. That's an expected use case in our legal system, and the authors of the music are compensated as mandated by the government.
Misrepresenting who performed an audio track is exactly that, a misrepresentation of goods sold. There are laws for that.
There is nothing in law that explicitly permits what AI sites are doing with performers' music. And the sites are not compensating the imitated performers. That's just plagiarism which is already unlawful.
- kstrauser 3y agoI agree about the misrepresentation. If it's not Drake singing, it's wrong on all levels to claim it's Drake. I'm not entertaining the idea of plagiarism. That's wrong. Don't do that. But should it be illegal to clone Drake's voice and add it to a song I've written, as long as I don't claim it's the real Drake? I'm not so sure about that. It's generally considered acceptable to imitate a band's guitarist. Why not its lead singer? If I can record a cover of "Sweet Child of Mine" with a guitarist who can perfectly copy Slash, is it wrong to do the same with an AI who can copy Axl? It kind of feels different, but intellectually I'm not convinced.