Sony Music demands platforms remove 260,000 SI songs imitating well-known artists
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Hundreds of thousands of generated tracks are being taken down at once: society will have to decide where the line between imitation and forgery lies, without stifling the genre itself in the process.
In March alone the label filed 135,000 takedown requests. According to the label, such tracks imitate artists' voices and likenesses without permission and divert income from creators. The number of SI songs has almost doubled since spring 2024, and Spotify removed more than 75 million generated tracks over the year. The music industry supports the NO FAKES bill, which protects artists from SI imitation.
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