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cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:
Spotify and UMG strike a deal: users can pay extra to make their own "AI remixes" of licensed artists https://www.billboard.com/pro/spotify-and-umg-strike-licensing-deal-for-ai-covers-remixes/
And so. What does this mean for FOSS?
What a question! What do I mean even?
Well what does it mean for projects which have accepted AIgen patches? UMG and spotify are going to want to make sure that users *have to* pay a premium for such a service. And so what do you think they're going to push for, copyright-wise?
That's right, if they can make a legal case that the slurry of inputs *can* result in copyrighted output, well...
What does that mean for AIgen patches applied to FOSS projects? What legal terms, from their slurry of inputs, carry forward? What about attribution, a requirement in even the most permissive of most FOSS licenses? To say nothing of copyleft, and also code released without a license, etc.
FOSS projects welcoming AIgen patches may be sitting on a ticking time bomb.