AI-generated music has become a flashpoint in the ongoing battle between tech companies and intellectual property (IP) owners. While musicians and record labels accuse tech companies of removing copyrighted songs to train their AI models, some artists are also actively adopting AI as a music creation tool.
Amid this controversy, Musical AI and Beatoven.ai have teamed up to develop a new AI product claimed to be “the world’s first fully legal and licensed full-length song generator.”
In a partnership announced Tuesday (December 3), the two startups said the new service will use AI to generate music while ensuring releases are based on fully licensed tracks and that rights holders are compensated.
The AI model will be trained on three million songs, loops, samples and sounds. It is currently under development and will be launched in the second half of 2025.
Although the AI song generator will be developed by Beatoven.ai, it will be trained on existing rights holder catalogs from Musical AI, an Al training management and licensing platform. Musical AI will also be responsible for make payments to beneficiaries. Additionally, its corporate clients will have exclusive access to the AI song generator.
“Depending on the use of the results provided by Musical AI technology, rights holders will receive an appropriate share of the model’s revenue, just as they do when music is streamed on a commercial service,” the AI startup said in a press release.
“There are no more excuses for not doing things correctly and well. We’re proving it with this first-ever service,” said Sean Power, CEO of Musical AI.
Meanwhile, Mansoor Rahimat Khan, CEO of Beatoven.ai, said the partnership “will pave the way for how business models should be built in AI, with rights holders being paid for the data on which models are trained.
“We have always embraced this model of partnering directly with independent artists and by partnering with Musical AI we will build a sustainable revenue sharing model using their attribution technology,” he added.
Earlier this year, AI startups Suno and Udio were sued by major record labels such as Sony, Universal Music, Atlantic Records, Warner Bros, Capitol Records and a few others. The suits alleged that the two companies committed copyright infringement on an “almost unimaginable scale” and sought compensation of $150,000 (Rs 1,25,00,000) for each track allegedly copyrighted. violated.