8bitsrule a day ago

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.

Am4TIfIsER0ppos 21 hours ago

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

  • SoleilAbsolu 10 hours ago

    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!

exodust a day ago

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.

  • JohnFen 12 hours ago

    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.

  • anthony_d 21 hours ago

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

  • braebo 18 hours ago

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