There
have
been
myriad
global
responses
to
the
intellectual
IP
scrape
and
combine
known
general
as
AI.
Artists
of
all
kinds
have
called
for
bans
on
AI
for
stealing
their
work
without
compensation
while
industry
giants
in
AI
have
gone
so
far
as
to
call
for
getting
rid
of
IP
altogether.
Our
homegrown
response
is
overwhelmingly
on
the
side
of
AI
—
if
Peter
Thiel
and
Elon
Musk’s
close
associations
with
everyone
in
power
isn’t
enough,
at
one
point
there
were
murmurs
of
passing
a
moratorium
preventing
ANY
regulation
of
AI
for
a
10-year
period.
If
that
weren’t
enough,
Sarah
Friar
soft
launching
(for
Sam
Altman
to
then
walk
back)
the
government
bailing
out
OpenAI
if
they
don’t
turn
a
profit
makes
it
seem
like
America
is
squarely
pro-AI.
Despite
the
general
stronghold
AI
has
on
the
US,
there’s
been
some
local
pushback
when
it
comes
to
large
language
models
used
for
musical
purposes.
Big
names
have
tried
to
limit
what
AI
can
do,
Jay-Z
took
legal
action
over
AI
making
use
of
his
musical
likeness
for
example,
but
the
balance
still
looks
to
be
in
AI’s
favor:
Xania
Monet’s
recent
success
as
a
Billboard-placing
“AI
musician”
and
“Walk
My
Walk”
being
at
the
top
of
the
Country
charts
suggests
that
consumers
think
AI
music
is
fair
game.
It
also
doesn’t
hurt
that
the
usual
and
popular
propaganda
venues
are
pushing
for
the
normality
of
AI
music:
Things
have
been
a
little
different
across
the
pond.
Sir
Elton
John
has
been
spearheading
the
artistic
push
back
against
the
theft
required
for
musical
AI
to
flourish
and
has
asked
the
government
to
set
limits
on
how
AI
can
be
used
musically
in
order
to
save
the
future
for
artists.
And
while
his
focus
has
been
on
his
government,
he
has
enough
sense
to
know
that
a
fight
to
prevent
AI
from
replacing
musicians
has
to
be
a
united
front:
even
if
the
UK
comes
down
strong
with
laws
protecting
artist
IP,
what
good
does
it
do
if
Americans
can
feed
those
songs
to
an
LLM
and
get
the
same
results?
It
looks
like
Germany
is
one
of
the
first
countries
to
answer
the
call.
An
artist
sued
OpenAI
over
the
use
of
their
song
lyrics
and
they
actually
won
the
case!
Reuters
has
coverage:
OpenAI’s
chatbot
ChatGPT
violated
German
copyright
laws
by
reproducing
lyrics
from
songs
by
best-selling
musician
Herbert
Groenemeyer
and
others,
a
court
ruled
on
Tuesday,
in
a
closely
watched
case
against
the
U.S.
firm
over
its
use
of
lyrics
to
train
its
language
models.The
regional
court
in
Munich
found
that
the
company
trained
its
AI
on
protected
content
from
nine
German
songs,
including
Groenemeyer’s
hits
“Maenner”
and
“Bochum”.
…
GEMA
legal
advisor
Kai
Welp
said
GEMA
hoped
discussions
could
now
take
place
with
OpenAI
on
how
copyright
holders
can
be
remunerated.
This
is
a
huge
outcome
for
both
sides.
For
European
artists,
this
case
could
be
a
template
to
be
compensated
when
AI
infringes
on
their
rights.
For
OpenAI,
it
acts
as
a
reminder
that
there
can
be
consequences
for
their
actions
so
long
as
robust
IP
protects
creators.
In
short,
this
is
the
sort
of
outcome
you’d
know
OpenAI
would
want
to
appeal
even
if
they
didn’t
tell
you
directly.
After
a
company
spokesperson
told
Reuters
that
they
were
considering
next
steps,
they
made
sure
to
frame
the
loss
as
a
limited
setback
that
doesn’t
threaten
their
business
model
too
much.
Let’s
see
how
well
that
characterization
ages.
OpenAI
Used
Song
Lyrics
In
Violation
Of
Copyright
Laws,
German
Court
Says
[Reuters]
Earlier:
Elton
John
Calls
Government
‘Losers’
For
Letting
Tech
Firms
Skirt
Copyright
Laws
Chris
Williams
became
a
social
media
manager
and
assistant
editor
for
Above
the
Law
in
June
2021.
Prior
to
joining
the
staff,
he
moonlighted
as
a
minor
Memelord™
in
the
Facebook
group Law
School
Memes
for
Edgy
T14s
.
He
endured
Missouri
long
enough
to
graduate
from
Washington
University
in
St.
Louis
School
of
Law.
He
is
a
former
boatbuilder
who
is
learning
to
swim, is
interested
in
critical
race
theory,
philosophy,
and
humor,
and
has
a
love
for
cycling
that
occasionally
annoys
his
peers.
You
can
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