so any silence in youtube videos is now a copyright violation.
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Now that's a court case I'd actually watch closely. Sooner or later they'll run out of things to squeeze money from, so I wouldn't be surprised if someone eventually tried this.
Someone is gonna time how long she pours and try to copyright it
Especially if it lasts 4 minutes 33.
Boards of canada did this on the last track of Geogaddi so that the total runtime of the album was 66:66 😎
Orange
I won't be listening to that.
Thanks for the chuckle this morning internet stranger.
I think it's my favorite song he's done.
So an album full of covers of John Cage's 4 33.
Honestly, it’s better than his 90’s catalogue.
Wait... This isn't posted in The Onion?!?
Frankly astonished he’s alive although
Actor Dick Van Dyke is due to turn 100 next month, so Paul's got room.
Dick was sexier and less dour
WTF, Paul McCartney want's to pay him royalty's for the silence?
Worked for Simon & Garfunkel's The Sound of Silence - so well that Disturbed covered it about a decade ago.
Yes exactly, Paul McCartney want is to pay him royalty is for the silence, as a form of protest against Spotify paying out "AI artists".
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Don't most artists, except a few already wealthy ones like Paul, make basically nothing on record sales and streaming?
AI can't do live performances, yet.
AI can pump out at least hundreds of song a day. They don't have to make much money per track when they can drown out everything else with sheer numbers.
Live bands are capped by how much they have to give the venue and ticket master. It's getting to the point where real bands will need to pledge themselves to a wealthy sponsor to continue to make a living.
I was watching the new David Attenborough show here in the UK Kingdom and I realised that all the orchestral work that is done to align with moments on screen will probably be AI soon. The tech is defo there already and it’s an easy way to cut budget. A shame.
I watched Jurassic Park with a live orchestra playing all the music and it was rad
I have to admit I get frustrated of the wealthier artists who started their careers singing of revolution and peace, yet gatekeep entry to the business and don’t speak up against the stuff that’s happening in the world. They just sit in glass houses.
you're saying protesting the use of AI to make music is gatekeeping entry? It's more like protecting the IP of fellow musicians. How do you think AI was trained to make music? Do you think musicians were compensated for that training?
No that many artists have gatekept entry.
Soundgarden did that already on their debut album Ultramega OK at 1988
Great message, but weird way to protest. What are the optics even?
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