As AI music generation APIs become more prevalent, the question of ownership remains a critical concern for platforms and creators. According to recent interpretations of U.S. Copyright Office guidelines, AI-generated output is not automatically protected by copyright. Protection is only granted when a human author has exercised sufficient control over the expressive elements of the work. Simply providing a text prompt to an AI model is generally considered insufficient to establish human authorship. For platforms, this creates a complex landscape where user-generated AI tracks may lack legal protection against unauthorized copying. Consequently, platform terms of service are becoming the primary mechanism for defining rights and responsibilities in the absence of clear statutory copyright for machine-generated content.
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