[Air-L] Music, Copyright & Generative AI: Social, Ontological & Legal Perspectives, Tues 6 Feb, 4:30-6:30pm

[Christopher Haworth]

*Music and Copyright after Generative AI: Social, Ontological and Legal
Perspectives *

Tuesday 6th February 2024

4.30-6.30 pm

*Location: Inspace, Design Informatics, University of Edinburgh, 1 Crichton
St, Edinburgh EH8 9AB + online*

*Presenters:*

Georgina Born (UCL)

Eric Drott (University of Texas)

Christopher Haworth (University of Birmingham).

**Featuring an electronic music performance by Owen Green (Max Planck
Institute) and Jules Rawlinson (University of Edinburgh).



“Music, Copyright & Generative AI: Social, Ontological & Legal
Perspectives” is the second in a series of 4 public seminars taking
critical and creative perspectives on the current state of AI in music; it
is organised by the MusAI research programme in collaboration with the ‘AI
and the Arts’ group at The Alan Turing Institute. The speakers address the
challenges posed by generative AI to existing music copyright regimes.
Born’s presentation draws on anthropological literature to highlight key
ontological categories underwriting property and ownership. Drott’s
presentation focuses on automatic music generation services, asking whether
copyright’s commitment to the individual author is called into question by
the distributed nature of machine learning. Haworth examines the use of
AI-based vocal cloning and source separation methods in official and
unofficial productions of the Beatles’ and Beach Boys’ music. He highlights
the moral anxieties that cluster around the use of vocal likenesses in pop,
and the artist-led initiatives being developed to address these––many of
which are in advance of copyright law.



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*MusAI Research Programme X The Alan Turing Institute Seminar Series*

>From mid-January to March 1st, the MusAI research programme (based at UCL’s
Institute of Advanced Studies and UCL Anthropology) is collaborating with
the ‘AI and the Arts’ group at The Alan Turing Institute on the delivery of
four public seminars emerging from its research. MusAI is the ERC-funded
programme “Music and AI: Building Critical Interdisciplinary Studies”, the
first major research initiative to examine AI’s implications for culture.
It takes music as the medium through which to create a field of critical
studies indicative of AI’s wider influence on culture, bringing together
the social sciences and humanities, creative practice, computer science and
engineering. Upcoming seminars are:

Seminar 3: AI and Practice-Based Research in Music and the Arts, Friday,
23rd February 2024, 3.30 – 5.30 pm

Location: PRiSM, Royal Northern College of Music & Manchester University,
124 Oxford Rd, Manchester M13 9RD + online

Presenters:

*Artemi Gioti (UCL) *Aaron Einbond (City University, London)

Seminar 4: Towards Radically Interdisciplinary AI Pedagogies, Friday, 1st
March 2024, 3 – 5 pm

Location: 1st floor British Library, The Alan Turing Institute + online

Presenters:

*Rebecca Fiebrink (University of Arts, London):

*Owen Green (Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics; UCL)

*Oliver Bown (University of New South Wales, Sydney)

*Georgina Born (UCL)

 https://musicairesearch.wordpress.com/