Summary
- Sony Music has sent letters to Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI demanding information on whether their AI systems have used its songs without permission
- Sony is forbidding anyone from training, developing, or making money from AI using its songs without authorization
- The issue of using copyrighted music to train AI models is at the center of a larger debate on data usage and permissions in AI development
- Laws around training AI tools on copyrighted content are being debated, with upcoming legislation in the EU set to change how copyright laws apply to AI
