One thing I very much enjoy about YouTube is the ability to learn about a more analytical approach to music, whether it’s pop music from Rick Beato and Dead Wax (by Jack Conte and Ryan Lerman) or classical music from Ben Laude.
Therefore, I am really quite… annoyed by the situation involving Rick Beato. His extremely popular channel, promoting high-quality pop music (with an emphasis on rock) and introducing production skills, is threatened with disappearance due to legal issues concerning his sharing of short song fragments.
The whole situation in itself is a frustrating example of corporate greed, but it is especially annoying in the context of how AI corporations are permitted to use other people’s work to train their models (fair use cases of Anthropic and Meta). As many indicated in comments on Beato’s video, it seems that there are two standards regarding IP protection: one for ordinary people (or those not as prominent as Big Tech) and one for AI companies. If you put the label “AI development” on your business card, everything will be forgiven.
Link to Rick Beato’s video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBq_krhKbW4
Originally published on LinkedIn