“AI music is not destroying human music.”
This was the sentiment Joseph Gratz, a partner at Morrison & Foerster in its San Francisco office, drove home during a March guest lecture to a forensic musicology class at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music.
Is AI the End of Music — or a New Beginning?
During a recent lecture, Morrison & Foerster partner Joseph Gratz noted the potential of harnessing AI as a tool to further “human expression” and dissected the snarl of novel copyright challenges that AI song generators present to the music industry.

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