It’d be nice to have a fair use tool, identifying when copyrighted music is a fair use.
I hope this won't spill over to a general deterioration or avoidance of music. People are really good at copying behavior they see from people they see as "authoritative figures" and influencers are that, for young people.
If you don't like music, sure... but I'm not willing to be that ascetic.
Has there ever been a significant point in history where this has happened? It feels like the opposite happens; when people conscientiously object to the music industry, said industry doubles down on their authority to control music. Radio license agreements, home taping, internet-distribution and now the YouTube/social media era are all punctuated by license-holders reaffirming their control, fair use and popularity be damned.
They behave like the mob.
I.e. a tool would have to ascertain whether a clip of music in a larger video was being used as part of film criticism (allowed) or as musical accompaniment to a comedy scene (not allowed). Even in a film criticism clip, the music is allowed if it's part of the analysis, but not if it's used as "branding".
So that distinction simply can't be made by a tool, not even with current AI. Heck, in important enough situations that are gray areas, people go to court and it takes a jury to decide.
My guess is you could build an AI + limited human review tool that would do it better than the 75th percentile lawyer. But there's not much reason for YouTube to invest in this.
Meanwhile "Old Town Road" was made by "buying" the "rights" to an instrumental track that was created by Trent Reznor, but Trent Reznor had to be told that someone was using Ghosts 34. IIRC the "beat" was "bought" for less than a meal at a fast food restaurant, not from Reznor (or NIN, or Nothing Records, etc).
I made $0 after spending about a decade composing, writing, arranging over 4 solo albums and an additional 6 albums with another person. One thing of note, though, was the "Napster Bad" metallica workaround on file sharing apps was to change the name of the band... to our band name. We didn't stand a chance.