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If AI in music sounds like sci-fi, this Nashville law professor is the expert to explain the latest

jewly hight

July 15, 2025

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AI-powered tools in music-making have proliferated. So have lawsuits brought by record labels and publishing companies. It’s contentious territory that’s still large unregulated, and in many ways, unprecedented.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, WPLN News Tagged With: AI, Artificial Intelligence, copyright law, music industry

Supporters In Tennessee Of Music Copyright Reform Hopefully Say Passage Is ‘Just A Matter Of Time’

Shalina Chatlani

September 17, 2018

Listen Musicians and their advocates are claiming it’s only a matter of weeks before copyright reform legislation passes. The long-awaited Music Modernization Act has bipartisan support. The measure cleared the U.S. House of Representatives earlier this year, but it’s been stalled in the Senate, amid a heavy lobbying campaign from private companies involved in collecting and […]

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, WPLN News Tagged With: Arts, copyright law

Tennessee Senators Hope For A Breakthrough On Song Royalties By Year’s End

Chas Sisk

March 12, 2018

Listen Supporters of a measure that would overhaul how songwriters get paid are still working to get it off the ground. The Music Modernization Act was unveiled in Congress late last year, but no action has been taken yet.

Filed Under: Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: copyright law, music

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