The Weeknd and Drake’s vocals were cloned in a song that has been taken off from streaming platforms. On Apple Music, Spotify, Deezer, and Tidal, “Heart On My Sleeve” is no longer a playable song.
Although certain copies of it are still accessible, it is also being removed from TikTok and YouTube. In response to heavy criticism from the song’s publishers, Universal Music Group, who said that the song’s copyright regulations were breached, this was released. According to the music publisher, a platform’s “legal and ethical responsibility” is to limit the use of services that harm artists in order to end their exploitation. The Weeknd’s ex-girlfriend Selena Gomez is referenced in the song as Drake and The Weeknd trade lyrics about her. The song’s composer, who goes by the handle @ghostwriter, claims that it was made using software that was trained on the voices of the musicians.
The song became more well-known during the course of the weekend after being posted on various websites on Friday. Before demands to remove it from TikTok, Spotify, and YouTube were submitted on Monday afternoon, it was initially removed from Apple, Deezer, and Tidal. The URL of the song’s original YouTube video has been changed to the words “This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Universal Music Group.” It had received 629,439 streams on Spotify before being taken down. The firm made about $1,888 (£1,500) with Spotify’s minimal royalty rate of $0.003 per stream. The publishers of both artists, Universal Music Group and Republic Records, said they have been experimenting with AI on their own for some time.
It added, however, that “the availability of Infringing content created with generative AI on DSPs [digital service providers] as well as the training of generative AI using our artists’ music (which represents both a violation of our agreements and a violation of copyright law) begs the question as to which side of history all stakeholders in the music ecosystem want to be on: the side of profound fakes, deception, and denial, or the side of fans, artists, and human creative expression.
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These events highlight the reason why platforms have a fundamental moral duty to prohibit the exploitation of artists through the use of their services. The involvement of our platform partners in these challenges is encouraging because it shows that they understand the need to contribute to the solution..
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