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Musical AI (wearemusical.ai) is taming the Wild West of AI. As ardent life-long supporters of the music industry, the Musical AI team saw the music ecosystem spiraling into unethical practices. So they fixed it.

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Musical AI and First Rule Join Forces to Create Fully Licensed Generative AI for Music Artists

Musical AI and First Rule Join Forces to Create Fully Licensed Generative AI for Music Artists

 

Musical AI, the AI rights management platform for music and audio, is collaborating with First Rule, a new Nashville-based artist-model platform and VST plugin, to build fully licensed AI agents and models that support music makers. Musical AI will provide licensed training data to First Rule, which will use this data to train musical agents and models to help artists and producers where they currently make music.

 

Musical AI will provide data, attribution technology (what inputs led to specific outputs), and payment processing to ensure First Rule can prioritize rightsholder consent, credit, and compensation. First Rule will train its proprietary models using this data and ensure they are capable of producing high-calibre results. This lets artists and producers train their own Musical Essence or M.E Models™ on their distinctive style and approach, then license these models to others for use in First Rule’s Co-Writer™, the generative AI-powered VST plugin they’re building that will work in any digital audio workstation (DAW), saving several steps and integrating AI right into the music-making process.

 

First Rule is the latest in a growing number of AI companies and rightsholders that are turning to Musical AI’s platform to license copyrighted works for AI training purposes. Musical AI has created a secure environment that allows rightsholders to offer select data for training and that allows AI innovators to know what track led to what generated outcome so that they can pay the rightsholders appropriately. This licensing framework has already attracted significant music rightsholders such as Symphonic and Soundstripe, and generative AI companies such as Beatoven.

 

“This partnership speaks to how generative AI can support artists from the ground up, from training data and models that honor artists’ work to helpful tools and substantial payouts based on usage,” says Matt Adell, COO of Musical AI. “First Rule is a great example of how AI can play a key role in inspiring creativity and unlocking new revenue, all while honoring the needs and wishes of rightsholders.”

 

“First Rule is committed to building AI that encourages artists and sustains music by ensuring rightsholders have consent, credit, and compensation,” says Rob Baker, Co-CEO and Co-Founder of First Rule. “Our partnership with Musical AI has been vital to realizing this vision and showing how AI can work in harmony with music, with both its creative and business sides.”

 

About Musical AI

Musical AI (wearemusical.ai) is providing the first real attribution model for generative AI in music. As ardent life-long supporters of the music industry, the Musical AI team saw the AI music ecosystem spiraling into unethical practices. So they fixed it. Musical Al has created an Al Training license management and attribution platform to uplift musicians, respect rightsholders, and unlock creativity for music makers and tech innovators alike.

 

About First Rule

 

Based in Nashville and led by seasoned artists and music executives, First Rule (firstrule.ai) is harmonizing AI with the music industry. First Rule lets artists and producers create their own models based on their unique style via its Artist Vault™ platform for use in its groundbreaking agentic AI VST plugin, Co-Writer™. To train its AI, First Rule has created a ClearVoice™ rights clearinghouse where rightsholders can opt into training and reap the monetary benefits thanks to First Rule’s partnership with Musical AI.