Is AI the end of music – or a new beginning?

Copyright litigator Joe Gratz provides a look at how the law shapes technological innovation and musical creativity.

Both copyright and the exceptions and limitations to copyright are engines that drive new expression of all kinds, including musical expression. Recent developments in AI-generated music, like services from Suno and Udio, raise questions about how copyright law applies, or should apply, to the creation and use of AI music generation tools. In this presentation, leading AI copyright litigator Joe Gratz of Morrison Foerster will provide a look backward and a look ahead at the role copyright plays in the forward movement of technological innovation and musical creativity.