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Google and Universal Music working on licensing voices for AI-generated songs — The Guardian

Google and Universal Music are negotiating a deal on how to license the voices and melodies of artists for artificial intelligence-generated songs, writes Hibaq Farah.

Here is the link: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/aug/09/google-and-universal-music-working-on-licensing-voices-for-ai-generated-songs

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