The legal protection of AI-generated works is one of the challenges that have been in the limelight of EU. In reference to musical works, their creation proceeds with a bang whereas AI and Human Intelligence are being in a clash over originality and creativity issues. In addition to this, unless an authorization from the rightholders has been prior obtained, the way of dealing with the vast amounts of data for training the algorithmic models of the AI system also shakes other layers of copyright protection that are related to the use and the storage of copyrightable musical works. While the DSM Directive has inaugurated two exceptions for TDM activities that AI developers could greatly benefit for the machine learning purposes, potential pitfalls and liabilities for copyright infringements appear imminent due to the difficulty of verifying the legal context and obtaining an authorization for the usage of a musical work as well. In this way, the evolution of AI within the Music Industry may be confronted with further obstacles. In the view of the final AI musical output, the EU Copyright legislation shows great promise and sufficient flexibility to cope with the issues raised by AI in order to review it through the lens of copyright protection. At the core of this, human’s involvement and creativity in the final AI musical work should not be inferior compared to AI’s assistance, otherwise the greater AI’s role in the creation of the musical work, the more the ‘author’ should prove his/her decisive role in the final AI musical output. This dissertation explores the intersections between EU Copyright law and the challenges presented by AI. It reviews copyright issues posed during the creative process of composing musical works with AI and continues by analysing and assessing the copyright status of the final AI musical outputs.
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