Artificial intelligence technologies have made a major breakthrough in the last year. Artificial intelligence technologies such as ChatGPT, Midjourney, ElevenLabs and Uberduck have also changed social media and content consumption. Many content producers have started to produce content with artificial intelligence.
One of these content has recently encountered a copyright infringement decision, which can be considered as a precedent. “Dr Grandayy”, who wrote a rap song about cats and sang it with Eminem’s voice, suffered from the removal of content from the world’s largest music company and Universal Music Group, which includes Eminem.
Universal Music removed the AI-created Eminem song:
Although we cannot access the song at the moment, it is still possible to find traces of it on YouTube. You can see a section of the rap song prepared by Dr Grandayy in part of the video below (1.25 – 1.54):
Dr. Grandayy had the lyrics of the song we listened to above written to ChatGPT, synthesized the voices of Uberduck and Eminem and had them read with Eminem’s voice.
What does a copyright infringement decision mean?
There is no comprehensive law in any country in the world about artificial intelligence technologies and the use of these technologies. Decisions are mostly at the discretion of the courts. For this reason, many of the decisions made by the courts can carry precedent value.
Universal Music’s justification for such an infringement also points out that the use of famous voices may cause legal problems.
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