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AI Music and Creative Authorship

Disputes over authorship, creative labor, disclosure, and platform treatment when generative AI contributes to music or audio.

Scope note: Distinguishes assistive tools from generated performance and records disagreements about thresholds without presuming that every use of AI has the same creative or legal significance.

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Did Boy George remain the author of an AI-generated song?

Bandcamp removed Boy George’s “We Will Dance Again” under a policy barring music generated wholly or substantially by AI. Boy George had disclosed using AI but said he wrote the lyrics and melody, treated AI as a collaborator, and remained the song’s author. He challenged the platform’s ability to detect and consistently police AI music. Bandcamp cited its preexisting AI rule. Boy George also alleged that political objections to the song’s pro-Israel message prompted the removal; the available record does not establish that motive.

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