TOKYO – Sony Group Corp. has developed technology to identify the original source of music generated by artificial intelligence in a bid to protect the rights of creators, amid growing concern about the unauthorized use of copyrighted works in AI training.
With the new technology, composers, songwriters and publishers will be able to demand compensation from AI developers for the unauthorized use of their works, according to Sony Group.
Sony’s technology can extract data from an underlying AI model and compare generated music with its original sources, quantifying their contribution to facilitate the collection of revenues.
A spokesperson for the entertainment unit of the Japanese electronics group said, “We want to contribute to creating a system in which creators are properly compensated.”
Groupwide efforts to protect content have become increasingly prominent, with Sony Music Entertainment in the United States suing a company for copyright infringement in 2024 in connection with the use of AI to generate music.
