On October 4, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) hosted a virtual roundtable discussion to better understand the impact of generative artificial intelligence (AI) on creative fields. The discussion included representatives from a variety of creative areas who spoke about how these emerging tools are reshaping their respective industries and how they are responding to those […]
by Ken Shirk, AFM International Secretary-Treasurer Generative artificial intelligence (AI), a sinister triad of words, has captured the interest of policymakers everywhere this season. In the US, the world of copyright law has determined that machine-generative AI product cannot be copyrighted. The US Copyright Office is now busily hoovering up comments from interest groups about […]
From the October 2023 International Musician magazine. by Ken Shirk – AFM International Secretary-Treasurer The modern human is a strange species—particularly, the variety of the species that is intent on amassing wealth and goods far beyond what could possibly ever be needed for a comfortable existence. Our economic system has conditioned us to embrace […]