{"id":225212,"date":"2026-01-22T00:14:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T05:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2026\/01\/22\/stealing-isnt-innovation-cyndi-lauper-questlove-more-artists-sign-on-to-ai-licensing-campaign-2\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T00:14:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T05:14:03","slug":"stealing-isnt-innovation-cyndi-lauper-questlove-more-artists-sign-on-to-ai-licensing-campaign-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2026\/01\/22\/stealing-isnt-innovation-cyndi-lauper-questlove-more-artists-sign-on-to-ai-licensing-campaign-2\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Stealing Isn\u2019t Innovation\u2019: Cyndi Lauper, Questlove & More Artists Sign on to AI Licensing\u00a0Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tMajor music artists are among nearly 800 creators signing onto a new publicity campaign that protests the unlicensed use of copyrighted work to train generative artificial intelligence models.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe campaign, dubbed \u201cStealing Isn\u2019t Innovation,\u201d has support from Bonnie Raitt, Chaka Kahn, Colbie Caillat, Common, Cyndi Lauper, Gavin DeGraw, Jason Aldean, Jason Isbell, Jennifer Hudson, LeAnn Rimes, Martina McBride, OneRepublic, Questlove, R.E.M., Rascal Flatts, Rob Thomas, The Roots and The Zombies. A-list actors like Scarlett Johansson and best-selling authors such as Jodi Picoult have also signed on.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe effort is being led by the Human Artistry Campaign, a coalition founded in 2023<\/a> by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), National Music Publishers\u2019 Association (NMPA) and other entertainment industry groups. This coalition is a vocal supporter of AI regulation and a fierce critic of AI products that train on human-made music, text and images without compensating creators.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cProfit-hungry technology companies, including those among the richest in the world as well as private equity-backed ventures, have copied a massive amount of creative content online without authorization or payment to those who created it,\u201d reads a Thursday (Jan. 22) press release from the Human Artistry Campaign. \u201cAmerican creators are being sidelined and soon won\u2019t be able to afford to continue producing original works if AI developers are permitted to continue stealing them without authorization to produce AI-made copies that compete directly with the original.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe coalition\u2019s new publicity drive is aimed at encouraging AI companies to make licensing deals with creators. The music industry began moving in that direction this fall, when AI music platform Udio entered into novel licensing agreements<\/a> with Universal Music Group (UMG) and Warner Music Group (WMG), and AI service Suno signed a deal<\/a> to pay WMG for its music.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThese deals resolved some of the claims brought in landmark copyright infringement litigation<\/a> by the big three label groups against Suno and Udio in 2024. But the fight isn\u2019t over; UMG still has active claims against Suno, and Sony has yet to settle with either AI company.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe future of AI music training is, therefore, still somewhat uncertain. Unless more settlements are reached, a judge will soon decide whether the principle of \u201cfair use\u201d allows Suno and Udio to conduct \u201ctransformative\u201d training using unlicensed works. This is a legal quandary at the core of dozens of AI copyright cases across the country, and, as of now, there\u2019s no controlling court precedent providing clear guidance.<\/p>\n


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Major music artists are among nearly 800 creators signing onto a new publicity campaign that protests the unlicensed use of copyrighted work to train generative artificial intelligence models. The campaign, dubbed \u201cStealing Isn\u2019t Innovation,\u201d has support from Bonnie Raitt, Chaka Kahn, Colbie Caillat, Common, Cyndi Lauper, Gavin DeGraw, Jason Aldean, Jason Isbell, Jennifer Hudson, LeAnn […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musique","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}