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Musicians release silent album to protest UK's AI copyright changes

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17 pointsBobCat8 comments

The first computer-composed music is often credited to 1956 'Illiac Suite'. The fella atop this protest co-created 'Jukedeck'.

But performing music is a whole nother thing. There, the secret sauce of personality and style is unlikely to be eclipsed by robots. Very often a choon that goes nowhere can be mysteriously lifted to the top-ten. How that works won't be tokenized soon.

Sorry "UK Artists" but that itself is copyright infringement of a work by John Cage

Haha, I actually know a musician who jokingly included their version of 4'33" on a release that did quite well, and had to pay royalties on it!

I suppose we wouldn't allow an alien race to release music in our market on Earth, would we? Although if they had a human agent on Earth, perhaps they could release music under a dedicated Alien label. Human musicians wouldn't like having their grass cut by Aliens, so they campaign to ban Alien music. The Aliens protest, saying "let the market decide." I'm not sure what happens next.

I can’t imagine why we wouldn’t allow aliens to release music here. Not sure what form royalties would be in.

Of course we would. Alien music would be all the rage!

Why not, as long as the aliens didn't use the work of human musicians.

These musicians aren't complaining about AI generated music. They're complaining that the mechanism being introduced to supposedly help them avoid having their works ingested by AI is, in fact, worthless.

> as long as the aliens didn't use the work of human musicians.

Don't you mean "inspired by" the work of human musicians? It's a fine line between inspiration and training.

If AI listens to human music in order to produce similar music, isn't that similar to human musicians listening to other music, then setting a goal to do their own take?

Musicians who use four-on-the-floor or familiar arrangements of verse-chorus-verse, and lyrics about love and loss, are aiming to fit into an existing pop music market. Without "training data" from other music already in the market, do you honestly believe those musicians would have created the music they did? Of course not, so why can't the Aliens/AI listen/train on our music and make their own version which sounds similar in order to fit the market?

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