AI, Copyright & the Music Industry - The Complex Issues Explained

Introduction

AI is affecting all industries, but in music its effects are both immediate and profound.

AI has fundamentally challenged the existing copyright framework, exposing uncertainties about basic assumptions and marked differences between territories.

Whilst the rate of development has proceeded at an unprecedented rate, the law has struggled to keep up.

This webinar will explain the key copyright issues to consider in understanding how AI will shape the music industry and the creative industries more broadly, such as: what rights can be infringed by AI tools, can AI-generated music be protected by copyright, what rights need to be cleared when training AI tools, and what do you need to consider when drafting contracts?

It will briefly cover relevant cases such as the arguments in Getty Images v Stability AI, the potentially global impact of the EU AI Act, and the important distinctions between UK and US law in relation to copyright and AI, as demonstrated in the arguments in US cases involving Anthropic, Suno and Udio.

Lastly, the webinar will provide insights from practice about the importance of contract drafting.

What You Will Learn

This webinar will cover the following:

• Copyright law relating to the training of AI tools
• Copyright subsistence of AI-generated works (including why music is treated differently from other creative works)
• UK law on deepfakes and what a proposed ‘voice, image, name, and likeness’ right could look like
• How these positions differ in the EU and the USA
• The proposed changes to UK law

This pre-recorded webinar will be available to view from Monday 27th January 2025

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