Due to "#AI" scraping and companies like #SunoAI, I think I will be protecting my music a bit more, coming forward. I have planned to originally put my new album #Breakthrough on #YouTube, and even considered putting it on #Spotify, but because that means my music will be put into a blender and then sold behind my back.
I don't think I will be putting my #music online in pure form without a paywall, because if someone wants to scrape it, at least they have to buy it...
I don't think I will be putting my #music online in pure form without a paywall, because if someone wants to scrape it, at least they have to buy it...
unfa🇺🇦
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in reply to unfa🇺🇦 • • •If #Bandcamp turns out to be training generative "AI" or selling my music to companies like Suno, I am going to nuke my entire catalogue there and make my own store. Idea of making my intellectual goods accessible only via very "inconvenient" means is looking more and more reasonable by the day in these unreasonable times.
I have to pay for my anti-depressants.
Nielso
in reply to unfa🇺🇦 • • •Everything that is accessible wil be scraped by AI.
I also fear Bandcamp opening up for AI training like FreeSound did, but I'm afraid practically there is no difference. I bet AI spiders are scraping the pre-listen tracks from Bandcamp already.
unfa🇺🇦
in reply to Nielso • • •So far reading Bandcamp's statement on the matter makes me feel safer.
They absolutely disallow any machine-generated content on the website.
No mention of training but it's implied they don't even consider that. I hope.
Morten Mosgaard
in reply to unfa🇺🇦 • • •I know from my online distributor, the Orchard, that they are working on more clear agreements on the matter, so you as a musician (or label if you as a musician sold your soul already by giving the mechanical rights away), have a say in what your music can be used to.
I have seen similar from Believe. Hopefully, this will eventually make the bad actors consider not scraping. But nothing seems to stop atm to be honest.
Nielso
in reply to Morten Mosgaard • • •Well, by German law, any music released in Germany in any way can be licensed by GEMA (the only German collecting society) to AI training. Even though if you as a musician are not a member of GEMA!
Musicians have to opt-out actively in written form (I did). If a piece has more than one composer, all composers must opt-out, otherwise licensing the music to AI training by GEMA is still legal. Yet the news hasn't spread about it, even though this regulation has been active since about one year now.
GEMA explicitly states AI training as possible usage (in German): gema.de/de/w/erweiterte-kollek…
Information zur Vergabe von kollektiven Lizenzen mit erweiterter Wirkung
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Morten Mosgaard
in reply to Nielso • • •@nielso shit! That’s insane, the Danish rights organisation for composers and songwriters are in a joint lawsuit against Suno.
Kind of different vibes!
Jens Finkhäuser
in reply to Morten Mosgaard • • •@mosgaard @nielso GEMA is a Mafia running a protection racket with state support.
I'm perfectly fine with an opt-in version,TL;DR.