Rachel’s Song – Part II: Neighbouring rights in music created by or with artificial intelligence under German copyright law
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Part I of this article explores the rights of authors in music generated by or with AI systems. This Part II focuses on further potential rights holders. Where musical works are created without a sufficient creative contribution by a human and no copyright arises, neighbouring rights can still exist in recordings, performances, broadcasts or databases involving such music.
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