Folk musician Murphy Campbell found herself at the center of a major ordeal when an entity called Timeless Sounds IR uploaded AI-generated imitations of her music to every major music platform, then used her recordings to strip her of her own income. According to sources, the scheme worked like this: someone fed YouTube videos of ... Read more

As crappy as it sounds.

  • Sandbar_Trekker@lemmy.todayEnglish
    1341·
    10 hours ago

    Misleading title. This isn’t an “AI Company”. As far as I can tell, it’s some scammer that used AI Tools to create similar music and then copyright strike the original artist to steal their revenue.

    The major issue here is how YouTube handles these claims. From the article:

    YouTube’s dispute process places enormous trust in whoever files the claim, with little built-in protection for independent artists who lack legal resources.

    This isn’t something new and was already being done before AI tools were available.

    • nightlily@leminal.spaceEnglish
      5·
      4 hours ago

      I think YouTube has a lot of room for improvement but why are people still so ignorant about the DMCA and the obligations of platforms to maintain safe-harbour status? YouTube must take down content on claim or open itself up to being legally liable for all user generated content. This Tom Scott video is still relevant https://youtu.be/1Jwo5qc78QU

    • SillyDude@lemmy.zipEnglish
      23·
      9 hours ago

      I remember I like 2007 YouTube removed one of my videos I made of a glitch in runescape because some else also posted a video and they copyright struke my videoto remove it. I made the video, with my character, just showing the same glitch. There were zero resources to fight it.