FTMI releases legal analysis white paper proposing a new right for generative AI
Fair Trade Music International has released a new whitepaper proposing a new right for generative AI. Learn more below:
Fair Trade Music International has partnered with the International Council of Music Creators (CIAM) to release a white paper titled “The Remuneration of Music Creators for the Use of Their Works by Generative AI”.
Written by Daniel Gervais, professor of law and director of the Intellectual Property Program at Vanderbilt Law School, this paper aims to address the challenge of ensuring ongoing compensation for music creators and their industry partners once most of the existing music has been used to train large language models.
Available to download now, this paper analyses the technology, examines how current law applies to Gen AI and proposes a possible new right that would equitably address the ethical issues surrounding creator remuneration.
Gen AI platforms must be transparent and keep track of their use of human created works. A new right of remuneration, vested in flesh and blood music creators, would be a major step towards an ethical, sustainable and fair use of this revolutionary technology.”
– Eddie Schwartz, songwriter and FTMI board member
In the executive summary, Prof. Gervais explains how Gen AI applications challenge humans on the very terrain that has distinguished us from other species for millennia: our ability to create literary and artistic works to communicate new ideas to one another, whether as works of music, art, literature, or journalism.
We urgently need to find a way to avoid irreparable damage to this crucial facet of human existence – a sine qua non for human progress – an ability that tends to be honed over time by creators who have the time to do so and learn from experience, which often means that they can live off the fruits of their labor. The stated aim of the paper is to find a way for creators to retain agency as their life’s work is taken without their consent to create “content” that can compete with them in the marketplace.
Learn more at the Gen AI campaign page.