Voices on Generative AI

Voices on Generative AI

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As part of NMC’s role in assisting its membership to keep apprised of developments concerning the critically important issue of Generative Artificial Intelligence and its bearing on the music community, we have launched an initiative to present the varied opinions of those in the thick of the global GenAI debate. The following clips are the sole opinions of the speakers. Additional interviews will be added at appropriate times in the future. It is our hope that this project will help inform public discourse on the crucial need to protect the rights of human creators in the US and around the world in the age of GenAI.

Production credit: All interviews conducted and edited by Kyra Badger

Ashley Irwin national music council
Voices on Generative AI
Ashley Irwin
Composer, Conductor, Arranger
President of the Society of Composers and Lyricists
Charles Sanders national music council
Voices on Generative AI
Charles Sanders
Chair, The National Music Council
Naomi Pohl national music council
Voices on Generative AI
Naomi Pohl
General Secretary of the Musicians’ Union (UK)
Edward Schwartz national music council
Voices on Generative AI
Eddie Schwartz
Songwriter, Canada
Past President, Music Creators of North America
Helienne Lindvall national music council
Voices on Generative AI
Helienne Lindvall
Head of Business Relations, Auddly
Award-winning Songwriter, Musician
Burak Ozgen national music council
Voices on Generative AI
Burak Özgen
General Counsel at GESAC (European Grouping of Society of Authors and Composers)
Ben Kessler national music council
Voices on Generative AI
Ben Kessler
Director of Government Affairs at the American Federation of Musicians

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