But not for the reasons you might be assuming, as the AI music issue only gets thornier
, Ghostwriter took a clever tack with their Grammy submission, picking categories that credit writers, not performers—and since the song’s use of AI was only for the voices, not the writing, it qualifies on that regard.The New York Times
this week, the song is ineligible for other reasons: I.e., the “commercially available” requirement for Grammy consideration, which says a song has to be available to legally buy or stream to count. And “Heart On My Sleeve” got pulled of the internet rather quickly, thanks to the legal efforts of Drake/The Weeknd publisher Universal Music Group.Even though it was written by a human creator, the vocals were not legally obtained, the vocals were not cleared by the label or the artists, and the song is not commercially available, and because of that,t’s not eligible.
The legality of using existing art as training data for AI is currently being litigated in a variety of legal cases, most of them related to the visual arts, but it’s clearly about to get pretty ugly in the musical world, too. “Heart On My Sleeve” might not be eligible right[
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