Germany's state-mandated licensing agency, GEMA, says the verdict has "global significance," as Suno is also directed to pay yet-to-be-quantified damages.
I think it would be reasonable to argue that training AI models on a song is more like sampling it than it is like recording a cover as far as what the model is doing mechanically. If they decide to treat it like a cover they’ll still have to deal with paying whoever has the writers credits for sales and ancillary usage.
I’m curious too.
I think it would be reasonable to argue that training AI models on a song is more like sampling it than it is like recording a cover as far as what the model is doing mechanically. If they decide to treat it like a cover they’ll still have to deal with paying whoever has the writers credits for sales and ancillary usage.
It wouldn’t surprise me if this got overturned in a higher court. The precedent set in the recent CJEU Kraftwerk sampling case seems to make a lot of sampling legal as a pastiche. https://www.technollama.co.uk/pastiche-or-cliche-what-pelham-ii-might-mean-for-ai-outputs
Hmm you’re right this seems highly relevant… Very curious to see how it plays out.