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11/05/2025 - Music Industry Trends: AI-Generated Content Accounts for Significant Portion of Uploads

argument: Notizie/News - Intellectual Property Law

Source: Reuters

Reuters reports a significant statistic from the music streaming platform Deezer, indicating that AI-generated music now accounts for 18% of all tracks uploaded to their platform. This figure highlights the rapid proliferation of artificial intelligence in music creation and its growing presence within the digital music ecosystem. The statistic from Deezer provides concrete evidence of how accessible and widely used AI tools for music generation have become.

The high volume of AI-generated tracks being uploaded to a major streaming service like Deezer has important implications for the music industry. It raises questions about copyright ownership of AI-created content, the potential for market saturation, and how human artists can compete in a landscape increasingly populated by machine-made music.

This trend is likely to accelerate, prompting further discussions and potentially regulatory responses regarding the definition of authorship, royalty distribution, and the need for transparency in identifying AI-generated content. The data from Deezer serves as a clear indicator of the disruptive potential of AI in creative industries and the urgent need for stakeholders to address the associated legal, economic, and artistic challenges.