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Spotify will badge artist profiles whose public identity looks like a photorealistic AI-generated person, and keep those profiles out of editorial and algorithmic recommendations by default. The badge says nothing about how the music was made. For artists, that means the face on the profile now matters more to discovery than the method behind the track.
Industryvia Spotify Newsroom
A year after an AI-generated "band" reached more than a million Spotify listeners, its audience has collapsed and Spotify has written rules for synthetic identities. The real cost has landed elsewhere, on a small human band with a similar name that had to pay for a trademark to fight an AI lookalike.
Industryvia Westword
Google stamps every Lyria 3 track in Gemini with an inaudible SynthID watermark, and the C2PA standard lets tools attach a signed history to WAV, MP3 and FLAC files. Both can point to AI. Neither can prove a human made a song, but an artist can use them to build evidence of their own process.
AIvia Google DeepMind
France's Senate has passed a one-article bill that would presume an AI provider used a protected work whenever there is a plausible sign that it did, leaving the provider to prove otherwise. SACEM, which has opted its repertoire out of AI mining since October 2023, wants it passed. It has been stuck in the National Assembly since June, and the reason it matters is that an opt-out is hard to enforce if you can't prove your music was used.
Artist rightsvia Sénat
Saregama owns the songs and recordings for much of Hindi cinema's 1960s and 1970s music, but not the film clips that went with them. It now uses generative AI to make new videos for those songs, and to rework some for younger listeners, while it still argues against unlicensed AI. The label hasn't said whether the original singers' or composers' estates get any say.
AIvia Music Business Worldwide
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