Interesting. So what if you had Suno generate an instrumental recording based on your song lyrics and you overdubbed your vocals on top of it? Since Suno can't claim SR copyright on it, do you retain 100% of the SR royalties?

 

As a non-amateur musican/songwriter, kudos to bandcamp.

However, it's like farting against thunder and pissing in the wind.

The genie's out of the bottle. Everyone and their aunty will be releasing "their" music, and swamping the platforms.

And by it's very nature, every human made song out there will be stolen by AI.

 

They'll must be using AI to seek and destroy AI...the war has already begun, .

 

No because you did not make a sound recording from your PA, Suno did, and therefore you can't file for the SR copyright.

As a side note in digital streaming laws the SR makes about 5 time the amount that the PA does.

 

Great news!! I hope the rest will follow and we win from the machines!

 

Bubble is bursting..

 

This text hits the nail on the head; I copied it because I can't summarize something like this from memory.
The text is important and well-researched, so I took the liberty of posting it here; who knows when it will be deleted.

Now it's getting expensive for everyone - January 14, 2026

Management continues to cling to a phantom, but by 2026 this will pose a risk for everyone.
Private households and taxpayers will foot the bill for the AI bubble.

While the AI bubble has so far been primarily a risk for investors, this year it threatens to spread – originating in the USA – to the general population: Taxpayer money is to finance data centers, and subsidies for coal and nuclear power plants. At the same time, the costs are rising due to the insatiable appetite for credit of the hitherto unprofitable AI manufacturers.

The whole thing resembles a pyramid scheme, and a collapse seems inevitable – unless someone pulls the emergency brake, something even UN representatives are demanding in light of the massive damage, for example, to the global climate. Countries like Ireland or Texas, a former pioneer of renewable energies in the USA, show where this is headed.

And yet the USA has always been considered the land of cheap energy. Where fuel is measured in gallons and the price of gasoline was long at $2 to $3 for 3.8 liters, excessive energy consumption (not just by vehicles) was long part of the standard of living. Unlike in Europe, people often didn't even turn off the lights when leaving the house. This also served to deter opportunistic burglars.

Times are changing. Today, even operating an air conditioner is becoming a financial risk. While electricity prices are falling in Germany, they are rising to record highs in the USA. According to media reports, consumers in the United States paid 10 percent more in the first half of 2025 than just a few months earlier.

And that's just the nationwide average—in some regions like North Dakota and Missouri, prices rose by more than a third. The media primarily blames the "AI race" for electricity for the new, gigantic data centers. From 13 US cents in 2020, the price has risen to almost 18 cents in five years, and "the worst is yet to come," fear industry insiders (opens in new window).

"Prices are rising primarily because the exponential increase in electricity demand—a significant portion of which comes from AI data centers and other super-users—is not being met by a sufficient amount of new energy. Regulators and legislators must act quickly to address the situation," says Rob Kelter, senior attorney at the Environmental Law & Policy Center, a Chicago-based environmental organization.

Unregulated and expensive

But that doesn't seem to be the case under the Trump administration; quite the opposite. AI is to remain unregulated, and any state that violates this moratorium is to be severely punished (opens in new window). Meanwhile, electricity prices are rising most sharply in the areas where the energy-hungry AI data centers are being built, with tech companies spending hundreds of billions on them. Uninterrupted operation is ensured by smelly and noisy gasoline and gas generators.

An AI rack with GPUs has the rated power of several sports cars and the (continuous) electricity consumption of a small town with several hundred inhabitants (600 kilowatts). Global energy demand is expected to grow by 165 percent by 2030, and according to Goldman Sachs, AI will soon account for a third of the data center market. As a result, "the air conditioning commonplace in the US is gradually becoming a luxury item," explains ntv stock market analyst Sandra Navidi (opens in a new window): "Now, incredibly large data centers are springing up everywhere like weeds, and tech companies are negotiating fantastic electricity rates with energy providers at the expense of private households. They are suddenly expected to pay more. Essentially, the average person is subsidizing the most profitable companies in the US."

Source: www.golem.de/news/ki-jetzt-wird-es-teuer-fuer-alle-2601-204124.html

 

This looks suspect...

 

Clearly generated by AI, I, as a Bandcamp employee, would probably delete it.

 

We need a barf emoji on here

 

Ironic how I see you on every thread with AI responses

 

That was then; I gave up on the AI experiment weeks ago. By the way, one thing has nothing to do with the other.

 

Finally! AI should have never been allowed anywhere near music!!

 

Now it's about defending our rights as musicians. Sometimes you have to stand up and fight for your freedom.

 

is the "ai slop" in the room right now?

is "ai slop" a quantifiable thing? people like to use that phrase because its is defamatory...not because it has a meaning.

if an unartistic, uninspired person uses a tool to make something unartistic and uninspired...its the tools fault?

this is the same tired old sloppy argument thats been made against literally every technological advancement in art since the dawn of time.

lets review the steps....

1. new tech arrives making some aspect of the artistic process faster, more accessible...self professed "real artists" get mad that their special club is getting crowded now and they arent quite as special as before. they freak out and cry about the new tech making things too easy for non artists.

2. people look at all the bad art that all the new unartistic people make with this new accessible tech and they blame the tool and not the unartistic people flooding the market with crap. (this is called the fruity loops effect)

3. actual real artists who dont care about stupid shit use the tool properly, with artistic intent and with artistic vision.

4. everyone sees the good art rising above the bland drone of the mass produced crap and they start to realize that...artistic people always make better art than non artistic people...always. with any tools available to them.

5. mass acceptance of the new tech begins.

thats the cycle. were still in step 1 for ai tools.


shall we talk about some other tings that were going to destroy art? what should we talk about?

the printing press?
oil paints in tubes?
the piano
typewriters?
radio?
photography?
collage/photomontage
talkies?
color film?
electric guitars?
computers?
cgi?
daws?
synthesizers?
drum machines?
digital cameras?
vsts?

which one of these technological advancements that heralded the doom of art should we discuss?


::edit::

i realize i didnt address your point of ownership and legalities....

mostly because....umm...no. thats not how it works. llms dont own anything at all, what with being a tool and all....and ownership laws arent being debated. the law is pretty clear already.

authorship doesnt disappear because a tool is involved. cameras, daws, generative systems, and algorithms don’t hold intent or publish works, humans do. copyright law already handles human directed generative processes, and lack of copyright isnt a legal nightmare for platforms. bandcamps bigger legal risk is going to be subjective enforcement, not hosting ai assisted music.

this is just posturing bs with no teeth at all. they will never enforce this and people will read it and feel better.

 

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not only ai music but anything to do with AI like free AI mixing and mastering

the ai thing is everywhere i wonder in 10 years from now

 

lol wut?

i cant tell if youre serious or just messing with people.

almost nothing you said here is true. there are 2 copyrights....you got that part right...the rest? not so much.

 

it was prbly written by AI

 

isnt there some gray area though? if you contribute enough to the final output?

 

Its accurate tho...