Category: Copyright

AI or Copyright. Choose One.

DC District Court Judge Beryl A. Howell ruled on Friday, August 18th, 2023, that works created by AI are not eligible for copyright protections. The Judge ruled copyrights belong to people. If this decision goes unchallenged and becomes the precedent,

Dynamic Orchestration, AI, and Video Games

There is a lot of hoopla out there with AI generated music and virtual singers. Most folks think these will be used in studios to produce soundtracks, and they are right. For now. Dynamic Orchestration Right now, every playthough of

Chat GPT4 makes graph paper!

It does take an extra step, but it figured it out in python! The Prompt: Please write a python script using fpdf that will output a file “my-grid.pdf” which is a landscape a4 pdf file with a background color of

Beware Copyright Trolls

  From time to time, copyright claims are made on my music. Sometimes they’re copyright trolls. Sometimes they’re well-intentioned people who don’t read the fine print and create chaos. It’s like playing whack-a-mole…. Please contest any content ID claims you

How to Post Your Music to the Public Domain – for free

I’ve been getting quite a few emails from people asking me how they can get their music published without having to spend money on bandwidth and servers. Most publishing sites are set up to make money from artists, and some

Music Catalog Available for any AI Training Project

Attention AI Researchers and really, just anyone who trains these things: I really like what you folks are doing, but there are complaints rumbling over at the Music Publisher’s Association that training on their property would mean infringing the United