AI Music Distribution and Human Authorship: The Real Gatekeeper
Human authorship is the gate that matters The mistake in most AI music conversations is treating distribution as the finish line. It is not. Distribution is routing. Copyrightability is ownership. A distributor can send a file to Spotify, Apple Music, or TikTok, but it cannot turn a prompt into authorship. That is why AI music distribution rules sound simpler than they are: the upload decision and the ownership decision are made by different systems for different reasons. ...