Swedish music rights organisation strikes deal to compensate artists for content made with AI
An innovative deal has been struck between a Swedish music rights organization and an AI company specializing in music generation. The Swedish Performing Rights Society (STIM) has announced a partnership with Songfox, a Stockholm-based start-up that allows users to legally create AI-generated compositions. This licensing agreement is an important step in addressing the challenges of AI in the music industry.
As part of the agreement, Songfox will use Sureel, a third party attribution technology, to meticulously trace all AI productions back to their original, human-created counterparts. This transparency ensures that STIM-represented artists, who number around 100,000, receive appropriate compensation for their work, even when it is incorporated into AI-generated music.
STIM emphasises that this agreement is a crucial stress test for a future market-based model to ensure fair compensation and a level playing field for all creators in the age of AI. Concerns have been raised about the potential impact of AI on artists’ income, with some studies predicting significant losses in the coming years.
This development coincides with ongoing discussions about European AI legislation and its consequences for artists. Although the legislation allows artists to refuse the use of their work for AI training, organizations representing musicians say that practical implementation remains difficult. They point to the lack of mechanisms for artists to be compensated for work that has already been used by AI systems.
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