Hip Hop and AI
Copyright Is a Big Deal
Today, we have our first ever returning guest writer,
, here to deliver another thoughtful article on the AI copyright discussion. Check out Rudy’s work here. For readers who are eager to catch up, this piece that I wrote is a great compliment to this one, but if you want to just dive right in, Rudy provides all the context you need. Enjoy!The late 1980s were an interesting time in hip hop. There was a dramatic shift in both the rhyme styles and backing music production. What started as young artists rhyming over instrumental versions of the day's hits evolved into young artists rhyming over newly created musical tracks made from a cut-and-paste collage of song segments. Yet it all only sounded a LITTLE like the original music sources and A LOT like something entirely new. It is not hard to spot a correlation to the process of using AI not just for music, but just about anything. Given the legal history of artistic works (be it music, film, art, or something else) and copyright, I w…
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