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Kate Duckworth: New Zealand Chair of the Intellectual Property Society on the copyright claim made against AI music companies

Published: June 25, 2024, 11:37 p.m.

AI has gotten two start-ups in hot water.\xa0

Their use of AI for music creation has resulted in them being sued by three of the world\u2019s largest record labels: Sony, Universal Music Group, and Warner Records.\xa0

They say that the AI firms are making money from copied songs, and want $150,000 in compensation for each song that has allegedly been copied.\xa0

The New Zealand Chair of the Intellectual Property Society, Kate Duckworth, told Mike Hosking that this is likely to be the first of many cases.\xa0

She said that the defence is likely going to be that it was fair use \u2014a strong defence in the United States\u2014 or that the songs were transformative works, as was claimed in a case about Andy Warhol.\xa0

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