In this Music Pool community late afternoon, we want to look into current developments in generative AI technologies and their applications in music, and discuss them from the perspective of musicians. What does a current reality check look like? What changes?
One area we'd like to look into is copyright. When media become more and more interactive and fluid with generative AI, how does that change ideas of authorship and copyright? When every song is at the same time an instrument for users to build on and work with, what new organizational frameworks do we need for creative economies?
How do music platforms use generative AI? And how are technologies currently being developed, who drives developments and what interests shape them?
How are generative AI technologies being used creatively by musicians and what do they change - looking at both problems and possibilities?
We look forward to our conversation with:
Zachary Cooper (Amsterdam Law & Technology Institute | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) is a legal scholar, filmmaker and musician, whose research programme focuses on techno-regulatory incoherence when applying copyright law to emerging forms of Generative AI-enabled media. He examines the ways in which Generative AI technologies are able to, sometimes subtly, subvert and confound foundational legal tenets, and how techno-regulatory incoherence is exploited to emancipate emergent tech from the control of the law. He served as Co-Editor of the European Journal of Law and Technology and as Editor-In-Chief of the Amsterdam Law Forum. He recently completed a research programme at the Weizenbaum Institute where he organised an international workshop bringing together leading IP scholars and creative GenAI pioneers to bridge gaps in contemporary scholarship with near-future-state technology.
Organizational Details
This Music Pool conversation is organized in partnership with the WISE conference at Pfefferberg. Join us with free entry for drinks at 16:00, so we can get together for the conversation 17:00 – 19:00. There will also be a WISE reception / networking afterwards, where you can meet more people working in music tech, if you are interested.
16:00 - Meetup with drinks, WISE conference area
17:00 - Conversation with Leslie & Zachary, Haus 13
18:00 - Q&A @ Balkonraum Pfefferberg
19:00 - End & walk over to WISE BY NIGHT with whomever is interested to hang out longer
For those of you who would like to attend the full WISE conference, there is a 50% discount code for the Music Pool community WISEMusicpool25 that you can enter when purchasing your ticket.
Here is the free ticket for just our event.
