Still not convinced about TikTok’s AI music ambitions? This web of patents and trademarks will change your mind.

Last week, MBW published a widely shared report about TikTok and its parent ByteDance‘s ambitions in the field of AI-generated music. Within that article, we told you about the extensive research conducted by ByteDance’s Speech, Audio & Music Intelligence (SAMI) team in the field of AI music. One of those research projects describes a generative…

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TikTok’s parent ByteDance has locked down AI-music patents in the US – as its researchers develop a model trained on 257,000 hours of songs

MBW Explains is a series of analytical features in which we explore the context behind major music industry talking points – and suggest what might happen next. Only MBW+ subscribers have unlimited access to these articles. MBW Explains is supported by JKBX, a technology platform that offers consumers access to music royalties as an asset class….

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