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7 minute read May 01, 2026 at 12:05 AM
By
Kat Black
Is AI the End of Music — or a New Beginning?

“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.

 

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