Do you feel like the subject of AI has entered almost every conversation?

This month’s issue of the Ping® Newsletter looks at the Copyright Implications of AI-Generated Music.

For creative professionals and especially musicians, trying to evaluate the impact of AI on both creative and commercial rights and music, raises more questions than it answers. For our quick and by no means exhaustive summary of some of these questions, read more below.

The Copyright implications of AI-generated music is fast becoming a major issue as AI tools capable of creating music that mimics human artists have proliferated. Some key questions include whether AI-generated music can be copyrighted, who owns the rights to AI-generated music, and whether using copyrighted works to train AI models constitutes infringement.

For a discussion of four questions on this topic, visit the Ping® post on adler-law.com. Those questions are:

1. What Is The Current Legal Stance?

2. How Much Human Involvement is Necessary?

3. What Is The The Originality Requirement.

4. What Is Shaping The Ongoing Debate?

Read the full article here.

Please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions, comments or concerns you may have around this issue.

Photo of Hannah Silverman Hannah Silverman

Hannah Silverman is an associate in the Litigation Department and a member of the Product Liability, Trial Strategies and White Collar Defense & Investigations Groups. Hannah’s practice focuses on a broad range of matters, including product liability defense, white collar defense, internal investigations…

Hannah Silverman is an associate in the Litigation Department and a member of the Product Liability, Trial Strategies and White Collar Defense & Investigations Groups. Hannah’s practice focuses on a broad range of matters, including product liability defense, white collar defense, internal investigations, and contract disputes. She has represented institutional and individual clients in all phases of civil and criminal litigation, including discovery, trial, and at criminal sentencing. Most recently, Hannah served as a trial team member representing Monsanto in a high-profile product liability suit. After a five-month trial, the California jury returned a complete defense verdict.

Hannah earned her Juris Doctor, cum laude, from Fordham University School of Law.  During law school, Hannah served as an articles and notes editor of the Fordham Law Review and as an associate editor of the Dispute Resolution Society.  She is the author of “The Role of ‘Coordinating Discovery Attorneys’ in Multidefendant Federal Criminal Cases,” 88 Fordham L. Rev. 1173 (2019), which received the Mary Daly Graduation Prize in Legal Ethics.  Hannah holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Emory University.

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