Royalties: Landr launches Fair Trade AI program for musicians
Musicians can earn money by participating in Landr's AI program - an AI music production platform.
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Landr wants to pay royalties to musicians who make their music available for the training of AI models. The program is called the Fair Trade AI Program and, according to its creators, is the first opt-in model for the music industry. This means that the music must be explicitly provided by the musicians via the platform - and the artists do not have to prevent their music from being used by other services for AI training.
To take part in the program, you have to register and submit your own music. Of course, applicants must have the rights to the music. Landr reserves the right to select pieces of music. Participants can withdraw from the program at any time.
20 percent of the revenue goes to the artists
The music platform has been working with artificial intelligence for a long time and is used by numerous musicians - six million people worldwide, according to Landr. Landr describes its own use of AI as ethical. Musicians who make their music available for AI training receive a percentage of a total of 20 percent of the revenue generated by the tools trained with their music. The money is credited to their accounts on a monthly basis. This form of monetization is intended to enable musicians to participate in the development of music production tools while retaining the rights to their music, according to the platform's website.
The founder of Landr, Pascal Pilon, explains: "Our mission at Landr is to give musicians the opportunity to be creative, be heard and monetize their work. With the emergence of new generative AI tools in the past year and the upcoming legal challenges, we now see the opportunity to make this market exciting and safe for DIY musicians worldwide by developing tools that support their creativity and workflow instead of replacing it."
Released music is not shared with third parties. Landr also wants to support the use of AI in music production - there will be guides, webinars and tutorials.
Landr is about producing music, it is not a tool like Udio or Suno that produces music via a text prompt. These services have used unsolicited music for training in their AI models - at least that's what musicians and record labels accuse them of.
(emw)