March 18, 2024
YouTube required creators to disclose realistic synthetic media
YouTube's blog and help centre document a disclosure requirement for realistic AI content, explicitly listing AI-generated music among it.
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September 13, 2023
Stable Audio switched from a licensed library to Creative Commons
Stability AI's two audio models used different training-data bases and different commercial-use ceilings.
October 26, 1999
An oil-industry pitch algorithm was patented as a vocal corrector
US patent 5,973,252 documents the pitch-correction method behind Auto-Tune, traced by its maker to geophysical signal analysis.
June 13, 2024
EU law now makes AI model makers disclose training summaries
Article 53 obligations took effect in August 2025, requiring training-content summaries and honouring artists' rights reservations.
LANDR turned mastering into an automated web service in 2014
The company's own pages date its automated mastering launch and describe the analysis it says it runs on every uploaded track.
May 16, 2024
Sony Music declared an opt-out from AI training everywhere
Sony Music's May 2024 declaration reserves its catalogue from AI training under the EU's machine-readable opt-out mechanism.
October 11, 2018
A blanket licence created a single place to register a song
The Music Modernization Act and the Mechanical Licensing Collective's own site explain the blanket mechanical licence a generated song still needs.
May 7, 2024
Logic Pro added AI session players that follow a chord track
Apple's announcement and documentation describe bass and keyboard players that follow a chord track, plus a device-side stem splitter.
January 1, 1981
A composer coded recombination decades before neural models
Cope's own archived pages describe starting Experiments in Musical Intelligence in 1981 and its successor, Emily Howell.
November 21, 2023
Spotify stopped paying royalties on tracks under 1,000 streams
Spotify's own documents show a track needs 1,000 annual streams and a minimum listener count to earn recorded royalties, effective since April 2024.
April 5, 2017
NSynth shipped as an open dataset and model, not just a demo
Google's Magenta team published the NSynth paper, dataset and code together, letting musicians inspect and rebuild the instrument.
September 8, 2016
WaveNet generated raw audio, and then music, sample by sample
DeepMind's paper and blog post describe a model predicting each audio sample from prior ones, applied first to speech and then to music.
June 8, 1996
Eno set rules running in 1996 and called the result generative music
A 1996 talk transcript and Eno's own 2017 app notes define generative music as rules set in motion, not a fixed recording.
ElevenLabs sells generated tracks it does not guarantee are unique
The docs and the Music Terms show buyers get a tiered usage licence while ElevenLabs disclaims exclusivity of the output.
July 17, 2000
An open database made music credits editable, not automatically true
MusicBrainz stores CC0-licensed, volunteer-edited relationships, which helps disputed credits but is not a verified registry.
An open-source voice cloner ships with no consent gate at all
The RVC voice-conversion project is MIT-licensed, and its own disclaimer puts all legal responsibility for cloned voices on the user.
April 1, 2023
Grimes offered her voice as a licensed model with a royalty split
Elf.tech's own 2023 terms set an equal royalty share and an approval step for releasing music with Grimes's AI voiceprint.
A mastering assistant matches a reference, not your taste
iZotope’s and LANDR’s own descriptions of reference matching, read against Spotify’s loudness target, show where the tool’s job ends.
May 21, 2024
Suno raised $125 million weeks before facing a copyright suit
Suno's own fundraising post and the RIAA's infringement complaint show a valuation and a legal filing measure different things entirely.
November 1, 2023
Now and Then used separation, not generation, to finish a demo
Apple Corps says machine-learning source separation freed John Lennon's 1970s vocal from his piano so The Beatles could finish the song.