Music labels' AI lawsuits create copyright puzzle for courts. Country musician Tift Merritt's most popular song on Spotify, "Traveling Alone,", opens new tab is a ballad with lyrics evoking solitude and the open road.
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Prompted by Reuters to make "an Americana song in the style of Tift Merritt," the artificial intelligence music website Udio instantly generated "Holy Grounds,", a ballad with lyrics about "driving old backroads" while "watching the fields and skies shift and sway.

"Merritt, a Grammy-nominated singer and songwriter, told Reuters that the "imitation" Udio created "doesn't make the cut for any album of mine."

"This is a great demonstration of the extent to which this technology is not transformative at all," Merritt said. "It's stealing." 

 Sony Music, Universal Music Group, and Warner Music have filed lawsuits against AI music companies Udio and Suno, alleging copyright violations. These lawsuits mark the music industry's entry into high-stakes legal disputes over AI-generated content