CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week. On this edition, big tech companies' insistence that training AI on existing content constitutes fair use under US copyright law, and the Grammy Awards' insistence that Christians do not swear.
SECTION TIMES
01: AI fair use (00:03:55)
02: Grammy Awards (00:15:02)
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STORIES DISCUSSED THIS WEEK
Tech companies insist training AI models with existing content is fair use in Copyright Office submissions
Submissions to the US Copyright Office’s AI review have been published, with tech companies unsurprisingly insisting that training generative AI models with existing content is fair use and therefore can be done without the permission of copyright owners
Chris Cooke
There is no swearing in Christian music, says Grammys
Christian drag queen Flamy Grant submitted their popular debut album ’Bible Belt Baby to the Grammys. It was long listed, but not in the Christian category it was put forward for
Andy Malt
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Chris Cooke
