By Todd RussellWe’ve talked about creativity and theft in the music business before. Those actually in the business will tell you it can be a very predatory business for creative people.
Lately, it’s come up a lot when talking about AI and companies like Suno and I’ve tried to bring out the reality that the music business has long been about theft of ideas and creativity. Long, long, long before any sort of AI generation. Even Taylor Swift had to fight to get control of her creative destiny and needed re-record the music she wrote and performed, due to ownership direction she disagreed with.
SIXX AM singer James Michael is laying it down in the following article.
“You bring in a song idea, something that you worked on really hard, and suddenly everyone wants to be a part of it. And I’m not talking about the people that were there from the beginning — you know, the ones that you may have written this song with. I’m talking about the people who kind of drift in pretty much after it’s done — the ones who say, ‘Let’s just change this one word, or this one melody,’ and they’re so obviously angling for a writing credit. Now, the first few times that I had this happen to me, I thought to myself, ‘Well, maybe this is just how the game is played.’ But then it happens over and over and over, and I started realizing, this isn’t collaboration; this is a conquest. This is this person’s strategy. And the fact is the music industry doesn’t reward truth; it rewards ownership. Whoever controls the publishing controls the paycheck. So it doesn’t matter who created it; it just matters who delivered it.” – SIXX:A.M. Singer JAMES MICHAEL Exposes ‘A Very Dark Side’ Of Songwriting: It Brings Out ‘The Worst In People’ – BLABBERMOUTH.NET