Who owns the song you wrote with AI? An expert explains
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By Douglas Broom
- Artificial intelligence potentially empowers us all to become creators – but who owns the outcome?
- The World Economic Forum has warned that copyright laws need to change to keep up with the potential of AI.
- Here, a professor of technology discusses how AI is disrupting our ideas – and laws – around intellectual property.
Artificial intelligence offers even the least musical among us the chance to get in touch with our inner songwriter. But what happens if you create a hit? Who owns the copyright? And what about the artist whose style is being plundered to create the AI hit? It’s a question troubling lawyers and digital media experts.
Which is why we sat down with New York University’s Professor Arun Sundararajan at the World Economic Forum’s 2023 Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Tianjin, China, to seek answers to a question that’s far from theoretical.
‘Generative AI systems don’t just generate new content in abstraction, they can be tailored to generate con...
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