· By The Vocal Market
If a vendor tells you a vocal dataset is "copyright-cleared," that sentence contains at least four distinct legal concepts, each of which can fail independently, and each of which will be examined during the due diligence phase of any deal worth more than a few million dollars. This post breaks down what "cleared" actually means when the data in question is a singing voice, what rights have to be stacked on top of each other for a dataset to be genuinely safe, and what specific documentation your legal team should demand before you sign. It is not a substitute for...
· By The Vocal Market
If you are building a music or voice AI product, the legal status of your training data is no longer a theoretical question. It is a cap-table question. It is a due-diligence question. It is the difference between a clean acquisition and a nine-figure settlement. In the last twelve months, a federal court rejected the AI industry's favorite fair use defense for the first time, a major AI startup signed a $1.5 billion settlement over pirated training data, and two of the three major record labels settled lawsuits against AI music generators in exchange for licensing deals and equity stakes....