Copyright Act section 114(b): a sound recording's rights reach only its actual recorded sounds (17 U.S.C. 114(b))
A label's right in a master covers copies of the recorded sounds themselves, and a training set holds such copies. A new recording that only imitates those sounds is outside the master right, so an AI output that sounds like a song without copying its audio is a question for the composition and for the artist's voice and likeness, not for the master.
Dated 31 Oct 2026Source checked 31 Oct 2026Basis: primary text
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In the source's own words
“The exclusive right of the owner of copyright in a sound recording under clause (1) of section 106 is limited to the right to duplicate the sound recording in the form of phonorecords or copies that directly or indirectly recapture the actual sounds fixed in the recording. ... The exclusive rights of the owner of copyright in a sound recording under clauses (1) and (2) of section 106 do not extend to the making or duplication of another sound recording that consists entirely of an independent fixation of other sounds, even though such sounds imitate or simulate those in the copyrighted sound recording.”
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