Drake, The Weeknd voices cloned using AI
Occurred: April 2023
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Heart on my Sleeve, a song created using AI by a TikTok user and which went viral across several online platforms, landed in hot water for violating copyright law.
Created by TikToker @Ghostwriter977, the song was trained on vocals by Drake and The Weeknd and was supposedly produced by Metro Boomin.
The song was quickly removed from TikTok, video, and music streaming services following takedown requests issued by Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG), which said it violated copyright law.
According to the song's 'creator', 'I was a ghostwriter for years and got paid close to nothing just for major labels to profit'. 'The future is here.'
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Unknown
Operator: Spotify; Apple; Deezer; Tidal; TikTok; YouTube
Developer:
Country: USA; Global
Sector: Media/entertainment/sports/arts
Purpose: Generate music
Technology: Text-to-music; NLP/text analysis; Neural network; Deep learning; Machine learning
Issue: Copyright; Transparency
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Universal Music Publishing Group (2023). Discord takedown request
US Copyright Office (2023). Copyright Registration Guidance: Works Containing Material Generated by Artificial Intelligence (pdf)
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Type: Incident
Published: April 2023
Last updated: May 2023