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Jim's avatar

Thanks to your post I used Suno for the first time and my first observation is that creating songs with Suno is very fun, almost addictive. This is from someone that barely made second trumpet in the school band, but did win a choral award in high school. So I’m definitely not tone deaf, but creating music is far beyond my ability. It is simply an amazing technology.

Just wondering about copywriting and the commercial value of the songs you created. Can you monetize them and do you own the rights? From what I understand, which isn’t much, it is very hard to actually own the rights to songs or other mediums created with AI.

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Vox Day's avatar

Yes, you can monetize them if the terms of service permit, which varies from service to service. In the case of Suno, you own all the rights if you pay for a Pro or Premium account. You do not own anything if you are using a free account.

I have about 15 songs on Spotify and other music services that were generated by Suno. It's not an issue.

While there are some legal issues yet to be settled, the "look and feel" issue is not one of them since Apple lost that case in the 1990s. Most of the copyright talk spouted by artists and record labels is ignorant fiction based on a complete failure to understand how AI works or what "training" is.

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Jim's avatar

Thanks Vox.

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B. E. Gordon's avatar

It would be cool if AI could write or edit musical notation scores (Finale, Sibelius) the way it can do it for prose.

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ticotexas's avatar

I don't know the appropriate place to ask. But can you do a post about who creates and how they create the AI thumbnails you use, that appear both here and unauthorized? They are neat and I am interested in AI images.

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Vox Day's avatar

Sure, I plan to do that in a future post.

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pdwalker's avatar

those are excellent.

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