Voices on Generative AI
Production credit: All interviews conducted and edited by Kyra Badger
Naomi Pohl
General Secretary of the Musicians’ Union (UK)
Naomi Pohl on AI and the artist/fan relationship.
Naomi Pohl
General Secretary of the Musicians’ Union (UK)
Naomi Pohl on the need for record keeping in the ingestion process for generative AI systems.
Naomi Pohl
General Secretary of the Musicians’ Union (UK)
Naomi Pohl on the need for labeling of Gen AI and keeping metadata intact to ensure that creators are being properly credited and compensated.
Naomi Pohl
General Secretary of the Musicians’ Union (UK)
Naomi Pohl discusses the need for consent and transparency in the ingestion of works, and the need for proper compensation and distribution mechanisms within the music industry and tech sector to protect creators.
Naomi Pohl
General Secretary of the Musicians’ Union (UK)
Naomi Pohl on the need for private and public input on the creation of a sustainable economic model to protect musicians and music creators, enabling them to earn a livable wage.
Eddie Schwartz
Songwriter, Canada
Past President, Music Creators of North America
Eddie Schwartz on the manipulative use of language regarding Generative AI.
Eddie Schwartz
Songwriter, Canada
Past President, Music Creators of North America
Eddie Schwartz on AI use as a tool and issues of competition in the marketplace.
Eddie Schwartz
Songwriter, Canada
Past President, Music Creators of North America
Eddie Schwartz on the importance of legislative consideration of a sui generis “making available” or similar right requiring consent from creators and copyright holders before AI scraping is permitted.
Eddie Schwartz
Songwriter, Canada
Past President, Music Creators of North America
Eddie Schwartz discusses the need for careful record keeping and documentation of ingested copyrighted material, and the utilization of future reverse-engineering of AI-generated content to reveal its source materials.
Helienne Lindvall
Head of Business Relations, Auddly
Award-winning Songwriter, Musician
Helienne Lindvall on an ethical approach to using Generative AI with singers and musicians.
Helienne Lindvall
Head of Business Relations, Auddly
Award-winning Songwriter, Musician
Helienne Lindvall on an ethical approach to using Generative AI with singers and musicians.
Helienne Lindvall
Head of Business Relations, Auddly
Award-winning Songwriter, Musician
Helienne Lindvall emphasizes the need to act quickly in creating a system where new technologies allow creators and generative AI to coexist.
Helienne Lindvall
Head of Business Relations, Auddly
Award-winning Songwriter, Musician
Helienne Lindvall on the need for acquiring consent from producers and writers before labels can ingest their work for AI deconstruction and stem creation for use in remixing.
Helienne Lindvall
Head of Business Relations, Auddly
Award-winning Songwriter, Musician
Helienne Lindvall responds to the tech sector’s claim that ingesting works for generative AI models constitutes freedom of speech by quoting Justice O’Conner that copyright protection is the very “engine of free expression”.
Burak Özgen
General Counsel at GESAC (European Grouping of Society of Authors and Composers)
Burak Özgen on the need for government input on compensation regarding generative AI systems.
Burak Özgen
General Counsel at GESAC (European Grouping of Society of Authors and Composers)
Burak Ozgen on the need to label AI generated material.
Burak Özgen
General Counsel at GESAC (European Grouping of Society of Authors and Composers)
Burak Özgen discusses the unfair competition of AI-generated work and the challenge of balancing cost avoidance with merit in the use of AI generated music.
Burak Özgen
General Counsel at GESAC (European Grouping of Society of Authors and Composers)
Burak Ozgen on the legislative need for mandatory documentation and record keeping of ingested materials by generative AI system operators.
Burak Özgen
General Counsel at GESAC (European Grouping of Society of Authors and Composers)
Burak Özgen on the need for enforcement tools to enable creators to protect their rights.
Ben Kessler
AFM
Ben Kessler on major labels and AI generated music.
Ben Kessler
AFM
Ben Kessler on the need to consider Generative AI licensing in a holistic way.
Ben Kessler
AFM
Ben Kessler on the need to protect working musicians from being replaced by Generative AI.
Ben Kessler
AFM
Ben Kessler on the fact that Gen AI will replace music creators in the production of background music.
Ben Kessler
AFM
Ben Kessler (Director of Government Affairs at the American Federation of Musicians) on the importance of the No Fakes Act for public safety and to protect consumers.














