Wow. Yea, I remember the same thing going on when synthesizers came on the scene, samples, DAW's enabling Home Recording and all (i.e. Billie Eilish) etc.
My feeling is, that if you can find your own particular niche, more power to you. Same thing goes for the Record Labels, I guess. The thing is, of course, is that it all has to be done in an ethical manner. That's the part that unfairly (in my opinion) gave the whole thing a bad rap, and sort of like demonized the whole concept.
The gaming the system part, that is. And that is just in the music business part of it.
And I am old enough to remember now, and have learned from the history books, that the same kind of thing went on with the advent of electricity, automobiles, computers, etc. And there is good planning, and there is bad planning. There will always be those people who will try to take advantage of a good thing, one way or the other. (Man is a flawed creature to begin with, generally speaking). And I tell ya, someday AI may even be a tool to help us find a cure for cancer. It is already being used for such things, like in medical research and the like. But like anything else, it has to be used wisely, and in a responsible manner, or it will turn a potentially good thing, into a bad thing, especially among public opinion, where the bad apples potentially ruin it for the ones who are smart enough to discern the difference...
Oh wow!!! Once again. Yea, nobody, and I mean NOBODY is reporting on this!
I mean, this gentleman and surprisingly, the government itself, is right in saying that "hey, you can't penalize someone for learning from your music", and the same goes for AI. (That's how they train their models, the same way human's learn!) Duh!
I mean, that's how everybody, and I mean how EVERYONE learns how to play music to begin with. (I mean, how many times have you heard an artist say that they were influenced by so and so, and even hear elements of that in their music?)
I mean, I took guitar and piano lessons myself, but I mostly learned from the masters. (Like everyone else). The piano lesson books for instance, had allot of material from classical composers like Bach, Chopin, and modern Jazz, Pop and Rock composers as well. One of the first songs I ever learned (like everyone else) was freakin' 'Stairway to Heaven' by Led Zeppelin, man! Of course, the decision still protects copyrighted material. As before, you still cannot outrightly steal someone else's song and pass it off as your own, for instance. You can still do cover songs and all, but the royalties still have to go to the original composer. Wow, once again, this is a BIG deal, because nobody is reporting on this to begin with. And I strongly believe it is a common sense and just decision, really. Or else, everyone would be suing everybody! But what does it matter, because I just heard on the news that AI is going to kill us all by the end of the decade anyway!!! O.M.G. here we go.
It's a freakin' crazy world man...
