The Financial Times reportedYouTube is in talks with Sony Music, Universal Music, Warner Music and other companies to obtain authorization through payment, so as to use the copyrighted music content held by these companies for artificial intelligence training.
Relevant news indicates that YouTube plans to obtain a large amount of music content authorization through a single licensing method, but there seems to be no final decision yet, partly because the final decision still lies with the music creators.
However, judging from the recent situation in which many music creators have united to boycott the trend of using artificial intelligence to create content, hoping to reduce the influence of artificial intelligence on their content creation, the proportion of music creators willing to cooperate with YouTube may not be high, and they may not even agree to provide authorization in the form of a single buyout.
For example, Sony Music previously asked technology companies not to use its copyrighted music to train artificial intelligence. Universal Music’s music licensing cooperation with TikTok also ended due to insufficient copyright protection. Even the Recording Industry Association of America recentlyAllegationsThe infringement of music automatic generation services Suno and Udio shows that music industry players still tend to protect the copyright of their content to avoid affecting their profit model.
