IP Lawyer Eliane Ellbogen answers our questions on how copyright laws will apply to AI-generated music – and the human artists whose music it sounds like.

Music Ally Focus

Ep 131: We have been puzzling over the impact of AI-generated music and how it will align with the laws that have made the music business, well, the music business. Eliane Ellbogen is an intellectual property lawyer at Fasken law firm in Montreal, and has spoken at a number of conferences about the legal implications that accompany AI Music. She joined Music Ally's Editor Joe Sparrow, who lobbed some (depending on your point of view) tricky and/or stupid legal questions at Eliane – who answered them with patience and clarity.

For instance: can an AI author music? Can humans claim ownership of AI-generated music? What happens if an AI-created piece of music sounds very similar to your own human music? What laws might be used to regulate it all? Eliane gamely got to grips with them all.

Eliane and Fasken: https://www.fasken.com/en/eliane-ellbogen

Eliane at MUTEK: https://forum.mutek.org/en/shows/2023/workshop-art-ai-and-the-law---ip-for-digital-artists

Bach’s Goldberg Variations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4yAB37wG5s

Oneohtrix Point Never - Again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcCWAqoiSXI

Smashing watermelons: https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/most-watermelons-smashed-with-a-punch-in-one-minute

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