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We need to talk more about legal issues around training musical AIs

Most people think about the potential legal issues around AI-created music, they tend to think about the output – the music itself, and questions like whether an AI-generated track can attract copyright protection. Superb article from Sophie Goossens explaining why just as much attention should be paid to the input.

With the state of the technology today, an act of copying is almost always necessary in order for a machine to be able to read a training set.

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artificialintelligence, ai, technology, copyright, entertainment & media