As the music industry faces the proliferation of tracks created from cloned performers’ voices, Mathilde Croze, partner, spoke with Les Echos about the two main legal issues raised by this phenomenon:

  • The training of artificial intelligences, which is carried out on catalogs of works for which they have not paid rights.
  • The use made of songs: creating a song and reusing an interpretation to generate a new work of art, without the authorization of the person concerned.

“Voices” of performers being protected by intellectual property law, by the right to privacy (as one’s image) and by the RGPD as a personal data, this subject is being taken very seriously by music streaming services, which are, one after another, setting up deepfakes detectors on their platforms.

 

Read Mathilde Croze’s full analysis in Marie Delumeau’s article