As has been widely and consistently reported, the music industry wants AI companies to obtain the proper licenses to train their models on copyrighted music. But how can the process of obtaining these licenses be made easier?
The latest initiative that hopes to help is called the Dataset Providers Alliance. It is a trade group of companies that focuses on AI licensing in the areas of music, voice, technology, video and images.
Rightsify is the music industry’s most familiar founding member, but is joined by Global Copyright Exchange (GCX), vAIsual, Calliope Networks, ado, Datarade and Pixta AI.
The group says it wants to promote transparency and standardization of intellectual property licensing for AI models; raise awareness among businesses about “the importance of responsible and ethical data sourcing and use practices”; and encourage more dialogue between all parties involved.
The new body sits alongside startups that focus on ethically licensing datasets for AI. Two examples we’ve talked about recently are Created by humans And Native Human AI.
