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Another Fake Drake? AI is decoupling artists and their voices (and there’s no coming back)

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Hanna Kahlert
AI
Drake
heart on my sleeve
Drake has had perhaps one of the most publicly up-and-down relationships with generative AI. There was the AI Drake music generator, which he was dead set against. Then there was ‘Heart on My Sleeve’, the AI-generated mix using the voices of Drake and The Weeknd by a creator known as ghostwriter, where Drake again expressed displeasure at the use of his voice.
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Netflix sues Barlow and Bear: is all fair in love and content creation?

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Ashleigh Millar
Bridgerton
Netflix
Barlow and Bear
TikTok sensations and The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical composers, Abigail Barlow and Emily Bear, are being sued by subscription video on demand (SVOD) giant Netflix, and it raises the question: how far can fan creators go before they infringe intellectual property (IP)? “What if Bridgerton was a musical?” Back when Bridgerton series one was released at the end of 2020, Barlow and Bear took on a project to create a musical surrounding the Bridgerton storyline.
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