Also part of the deal are music rights firm Merlin and digital music company Believe.<\/p>\n
It is unclear exactly what these AI tools will look like, but Spotify says it has already started working on its first products.<\/p>\n
Spotify said it recognised there was a “wide range of views on use of generative music tools within the artistic community” and it planned to allow artists to choose if they wanted to participate.<\/p>\n
It comes as a number of high-profile musicians such as Dua Lipa, Sir Elton John<\/a> and Sir Paul McCartney<\/a> have spoken out against AI companies training generative AI tools on their music without payment or permission.<\/p>\n Spotify said it would make sure artists, songwriters and rights holders were “properly compensated for uses of their work and transparently credited for their contributions”.<\/p>\n These would be through “upfront agreements” and not “asking for forgiveness later”.<\/p>\n “Technology should always serve artists, not the other way around,” said the firm’s co-president Alex Norstrom.<\/p>\n New Orleans-based artist management company MidCitizen Entertainment said AI has “polluted the creative ecosystem”.<\/p>\n Managing Partner Max Bonanno said AI-generated songs have “diluted the already limited share of revenue that artists receive from streaming royalties”.<\/p>\n But the announcement was welcomed by Ed Newton-Rex, founder of Fairly Trained, which campaigns for AI firms to respect creators’ rights.<\/p>\n “Lots of the AI industry is exploitative – AI built on people’s work without permission, served up to users who get no say in the matter,” he told BBC News. <\/p>\n “This is different – AI features built fairly, with artists’ permission, presented to fans as a voluntary add-on rather than an inescapable funnel of AI slop.<\/p>\n “The devil will be in the detail, but it looks like a move towards a more ethical AI industry, which is sorely needed.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Also part of the deal are music rights firm Merlin and digital music company Believe. It is unclear…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-205854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}