GEN AI MUSIC LICENSING – Thoughts from Leading Indie Publishers and Labels in the U.S., Canada and Sweden

This panel features leaders from the music publishing and label industries in the U.S., Canada, and Sweden who are on the front lines helping to develop the Gen AI Music Licensing Model. Unlike any other music license of its kind, generative AI has a whole host of issues that publishers and labels have never had to grapple with before. Some of these include valuation of the total scope of rights for the inputs vs outputs, using attribution engines to determine payees for outputs, how to value and credit output shares for the derivative works, walled gardens and much more. The list of questions is much longer than the current answers, but like any new licensing model, we must start somewhere, so let us begin…