Musical copyright and AI
Context:
Over 1,000 musicians released a silent album, "Is This What We Want?", to protest UK copyright law changes allowing AI companies to use copyrighted work without a license. They fear this will lead to music theft and harm their livelihoods and the UK music industry.
Members of the media may directly contact:
Christopher Moore (English & French)
Associate professor, School of Music Director, Faculty of Arts
Professor Moore is an expert in the history of music with particular interest in issues of politics, identity, and music criticism.
"As was the case with the historical emergence of most new media during the last century - recordings, radio, television, and streaming platforms, for example - the development of AI will have an increasingly disruptive impact on the music industry, modifying and challenging how we understand and relate to ideas of musical creativity, expression, authenticity, and originality.”
Jeremy De Beer (English only)
Full professor, Common Law, Faculty of Law
Professor de Beer's “Digital Music Law” seminar has been taught to students in Canada, the United States, and the Caribbean, he is former legal counsel to the Copyright Board of Canada, and has published extensively on copyright, law, and technology topics.