Overview

• Gema has filed lawsuits against OpenAI and Suno, alleging both used copyrighted music without permission to train their AI models.
• The January 2024 Gema-Sacem study estimates AI-generated music could threaten over €2.7 billion in creator revenue across Germany and France by 2028.
• Deezer reports it now receives about 20,000 fully AI-generated songs daily, heightening competition for human artists on streaming platforms.
• Musicians and rights groups are calling for clear labeling of AI-produced tracks and payment to artists whose work feeds AI training.
• Advocates warn AI music lacks the emotional depth of human-created songs and say existing streaming revenue inequality concentrates 75 percent of earnings among just 0.1 percent of artists.