I could rant on this for days. This guy, DJ Pain, has great insight and info about the new world of A-I and how it affects musicians and content creators. It’s worth watching. A couple highlights are copyright infringement. I’ve been preaching the concept of being original for decades. Many talk about it in their academic world, the jazz professors and music institutions. I’m speaking of jazz and original music. Classical players are breed to regurgitate the notes on paper.
Years ago, I discovered the new wave of music jibber jabber, known as ‘Beats’ Beatmakers and that world. As a drummer percussionist a beat was a rhythmic groove. The music of rap and hip hop etc has became Beats, bought from web sites, 4 bar - sometimes more with additional computer tracks….you buy it, add your voice, BaDaBoom, you got a million download hit. I guess.
This guy DJ Pain, is preaching that those individuals creating Beats, will be obsolete because of instant A - I generated “Beats” sorry not sorry.
I tried my hand at that platform, selling my “beats” the difference is my beats are real beats, real drums, human intelligence. I had success with 2 major artist producers. My tracks are nothing like the cookie cutter “beats” from the beat world. I believe that is what appealed to my 2 buyers.
I see zero future in that arena for me, hence I bailed from it months ago.
For those that make that generic style of beats, music, I believe their future is limited.
The concept of creating sound alike beat tracks involves the plagiarism of someone else’s beat, sound, style. This is where it gets into legal territory.
DJ Pain talks about the big labels that control the music industry and their interest and possible fear of this thing known as A - I.
Decades ago, when Napster hit the scene, Labels scrambled to figure out what to do. They fought to kill Napster and free digital downloads. How has that worked out. Now they own the Spotify digital download world and promote free music for subscription etc…paying artist $00.003-5 cents per stream. How generous. I exited that platform also. It doesn’t make any sense to me.
Next topic is copyright infringement. Evidently the ‘US Government’ is hard at work to get this under control. Oh yeah, they can be trusted. Their interest will certainly be the protection of creative artist, not the big label lobbyist contributors. Of coarse this is a joke. They are bought and paid for.
My take continues to be, you get what you want, people want stupid. It’s sad and unfortunate.
And, what is copyright infringement, now that A - I has arrived.
Musicians have been stealing licks and riffs forever. Can a saxophone player be sued for sounding like John Coltrane? All of the input for sound, image, text comes from the input of real artist work and catalogue.
Artist, musicians, designers without any identity may pay the price for their lack of creative effort.
Coke has protected their ingredients for decades. This kind of copyright protection is expensive and difficult.
Maybe- we’ll see and hear more creative music, art etc. from real humans, without artificial beats and stolen ideas.
Then again, the consumer decides, really.
This web site is promoting A I generated tracks.
https://soundful.com