‘The Voice’ Singer-Songwriter and DC Policymaker Dissect A.I. Impacts in Podcast

Is AI a tool for creators or threat to their financial existence? What is AI’s likely impact on them, businesses and society?

To probe these questions and others ‘Understanding IP Matters’ turned to two different but important members of the creator community – one a singer-songwriter and the other a Washington copyright expert.

Keith Kupferschmid is a former patent examiner who now heads the Copyright Alliance, a two-million-member nonprofit organization composed of creators based in Washington D.C. The Alliance brings together artists of different disciplines to support each other’s policy interests.

Lana Love is a classically-trained singer songwriter, pianist, dancer, and actress turned pop artist who leverages social media and AI to promote her genre-bending music. He success as part of team John Legend on NBC’s popular ‘The Voice’ series has provided her increased recognition. The entrepreneur encourages young artists to ask questions, develop multiple income streams, and educate themselves about intellectual property for their business interests.

The Challenge

“The [challenge] is simply that the AI developers are not getting permission or compensating copyright owners when their AI tools ingest copyrighted works in order to train those tools,” says Kupferschmid. “That’s the biggest issue.”

Listen to ‘AI Bots, Creators and Copyright – Learning to
Live Together’ on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google and other
platforms here or on the CIPU website.

“Being an artist is about so much more than making music. In the beginning, I didn’t really understand that,” says Love. “I thought, oh, I can just get really good at this one thing. Right? There will always be a place for talent. There will always be a place and an audience for mastery. I think that’s very important.”

Highlights of the podcast include:

The realities of making money in the music business as an artist and the enduring value of raw emotion
How Love’s pre-professional program for young creators teaches them about the value of owning their own work
The benefits of organizations with different interests rallying behind copyright protection
Why many of the cases filed at the Copyright Small Claims Court have been dismissed in its first year

Listen to ‘AI Bots, Creators and Copyright – Learning to Live Together’ on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google and other platforms here or on the CIPU website.