Artists demand consent before the AI machine eats the songbook

The 22 June music news cycle opens with a serious industry alarm bell: a global coalition of 29 organisations representing artists, songwriters and managers is demanding that music companies stop treating creator rights like loose change in the AI sofa. The open letter calls for consent and control, fair compensation, and transparency around AI licensing agreements. That may sound procedural, but for independent artists it is existential. If songs, voices, images and moral rights can be bundled into opaque AI deals without meaningful approval, the old bad contracts suddenly get a futuristic horror upgrade. The coalition’s message is simple: artists are not raw material, and labels should not be trading rights that belong to the people who actually made the music. In a scene built on voice, identity and trust, consent cannot be a footnote.

Source: https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/news/global-coalition-demands-consent-in-music-industry-ai-agreements