Originally Posted by Matt Finley
Herb, you wrote that one of your publishers doesnt want anything “sent by WeTransfer since both of those are allowing AI models to train on the content those sites handle”

Yikes.

WeTransfer has been the way the recording studio I work in most (in Woodstock NY) has sent me premixed and mixed tracks for two decades! That’s one way i never considered my music could be pilfered (since there are already enough other ways). Do you happen to know when that policy started?

As far as when the WT policy started, I'll admit I don't know. SoundCloud has done the same thing announcing in their user agreement that you, by default, agree to allow them to allow AI to use your SC tracks to train AI. My publisher is meticulous about avoiding the mere appearance that AI is involved in anything in his catalog either from the front end or even the reverse. He adopted that policy in the spring of this year. A notice was sent with the new writing agreement with a note to read carefully the new section and expansion for the use of AI or anything connected to AI that allows content to be used for AI training. It had to be signed before he would sign anything new or plug anything from your existing catalog in his library.

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www.herbhartley.com
Add nothing that adds nothing to the music.
You can make excuses or you can make progress but not both.

The magic you are looking for is in the work you are avoiding.