> People defending strong copyrights think they are protecting the little guy, but in fact they are defending the few winner-takes-all creatives.

Copyrights do both, they protect all creatives, it’s not one or the other.

> Banning AI music many only protect the same people

How so? AI threatens publishers and copyrights holders the most. Don’t confuse big music with big tech, they’re not the same people. Maybe browse the list of AI lawsuits related to copyrights and note how many publishers there are https://ailawsuittracker.com/copyright/

Breaking the copyright system is very unlikely to leave independent artists unscathed, I believe AI is already doing significant damage to independent artists. Breaking big publishing system won’t help either, given the number of independent artists striving to break out and go big and land a publishing contract.

> It could paradoxically increase the value of human connection in music consumption.

My prediction/fear is that it will remove incentives to make music "manually", and thus lead to a decline in all aspects of the music industry, starting at spending, and then continue to teachers to instrument makers to artists. And that will make music a very elitist hobby, and stifle further development. We'll get stuck in LLM variations over All I want for Last Christmas.

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Complete bullshit. Any musician can register for copyright payouts and all musicians involved in a production get something.

Instead, of course the money should go to Silicon Valley mafiosi and middlemen!