Entertainment attorneys discuss the formula for determining streaming royalties, sitting at folding table with a Tweed Recording Studios banner in front of. a small crowd. UGA Artist Rights Symposium

Musicians and attorneys discuss AI threats at UGA’s fifth Artist Rights Symposium

The UGA Music Business Program hosted its fifth Artist Rights Symposium on Oct. 19. The symposium has become a forum for people from across the music industry ecosystem to discuss the status of intellectual property in relation to new technologies — from file sharing, to streaming, to mass digitization and now generative AI.

An illustration of a lawyer serving a lawsuit to a robot works on a painting set up on an easel.

AI art may lead to more lawsuits

Terry researchers found a pervasive public bias against art created with artificial intelligence that may lead to more copyright lawsuits and legal awards for copyright plaintiffs.