Rachel’s Song – Part I: Rights of authors to music created by or with artificial intelligence under German copyright law

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Aug 12 2024

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This Part I of the article examines under what circumstances those involved in the creation of music by or with the help of AI programs can acquire rights as authors. As a rule, there are no authors’ rights in music that is created autonomously by generative AI systems.

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Read Part 2 here