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ELVIS Law and Fake Drake
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States have long had laws restricting the use of a celebrities’ “name, image and likeness” for commercial purposes such as advertising. The issue is gaining momentum because of AI generated “deep fakes” such as the notorious “Fake Drake” song that dropped on streaming platforms recently. To address this risk, Tennessee has now enacted the Ensuring…
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The Finell Hierarchy of Elements in Assessing Substantial Similarities
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In evaluating music enmeshed in plagiarism disputes, the foremost questions a musicologist addresses are: Are these works alike? If so, how are they alike? Are their underlying compositional features alike? In my own musicological education and its application to copyright infringement disputes, I have developed and relied upon a hierarchy of musical features in assessing…
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Does AI Democratize Musical Creation?
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AI is possibly going to become a virtual collaborator with human composers. Music is a great candidate for AI, because “it’s math,” as many say, meaning it’s highly systematized and fully measurable in time, volume, tempo, frequency, and pitch. As such, it’s a prime database for machine learning. AI extrapolates patterns and traits from previous…