Sony Music (SONY) has sent letters to more than 700 AI companies, developers, and music streaming platforms around the world warning over the “unauthorized use” of Sony’s content in training AI, The Financial Times’ Daniel Thomas reports. According to people close to the company, Sony Music sent the letter to companies developing AI systems including OpenAI, Microsoft (MSFT) and Google (GOOGL), and sent separate letters to streaming platforms, including Spotify (SPOT) and Apple (AAPL), asking them to adopt “best practice” measures to protect artists and songwriters and their music from scraping, mining and training by AI developers without consent or compensation.
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