A talk/listening session illustrating our situation as musickers using technology vis a vis big tech, and the “big three” who own 70% of the world’s musical patrimony. Rapid advances in the possibility of creative music making afforded by A.I. correspond with increasing concentration of ownership, including distribution control, within the music business. While the commons has been pillaged for training data, simultaneously the almost infinite resources of the oligopoly tech and music sectors have been brought to bear in legal actions against those opposing their agendas.
A quick charting of the historical advances towards A.I. musicking while looking at changes in copyright law, copy-left and collaborative and open-source activities, the realities of copyright enforcement, …and of course piracy – a word aptly but rarely applied to Meta, Google or OpenAI.
Keywords: AI music, musicking, commons, copy-left, open source, LLM, generative AI, algorithmic composition, stochastic composition, music recording history, recording industry, shadow libraries, libgen, UMG, Google, Alphabet, Spotify, Udio.
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International Conference DCAC
Tsirigoti Square 7, 49100 Corfu
Ionian Islands Region, Greece
av-dcac@ionio.gr
