Artificial intelligence technologies have made a major breakthrough in the past year. Artificial intelligence technologies such as ChatGPT, Midjourney, ElevenLabs and Uberduckhas also changed the consumption of social media and content. Many content producers have started producing content with artificial intelligence.

One of these contents has recently faced a copyright infringement decision, which can be considered a precedent. He wrote a rap song about cats and sang it with Eminem’s voice. “Dr Grandayy” suffered a ban from the world’s largest music company and Universal Music Group, which also includes Eminem.

Universal Music has removed the AI-created Eminem song:

While we don’t have access to the song at this time, traces of it can still be found on YouTube. Below is a snippet of Dr. Grandayy: part of the video you can see (1.25 – 1.54):

Dr Grandayy, the lyrics to the song we heard above to ChatGPT printed, Uber duck He synthesized Eminem’s voice with Eminem and made Eminem read these words with his voice.

What does a copyright infringement decision mean?

There is no comprehensive law on artificial intelligence technologies and the use of these technologies in any country in the world. Decisions are usually at the discretion of the courts. For this reason, many decisions are made by the courts nominal value can wear.

Universal Music’s justification for such an infringement also indicates that the use of famous voices may cause legal problems.