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! LOYALTY & ROYALTY PAYMENTS ! : THE WORLD STUDENTS SOCIETY rises to give the Leaders, Parents, Students, Professors and Teachers of the world, a standing ovation - ever and more.

SOUNDSCAPE : THE ARTIFICIAL IN MUSIC. AS AI INPUT INTO MUSIC PRODUCTION GROWS, industry - standard labels in music could change how we listen.

EARLIER this year, a band called The Velvet Sundown racked up hundreds of thousands of streams on  Spotify with retro-pop tracks, generating a million monthly listeners on Spotify.

BUT the band wasn't real. Every song, image, and even its back story, had been generated by someone using generative A.I.

For some, it was a clever experiment. For others, it revealed a troubling lack of transparency in music creation even though the band's Spotify descriptor was later updated to acknowledge it is composed with AI. 

In September 2025, Spotify announced it is “helping develop and will support the new industry standard for AI disclosures in music credits developed through DDEX.”

DDEX is a not-for-profit membership organisation focused on the creation of digital music value chain standards.

The company also says it's focusing work on improved enforcement of impersonating violations and a new spam-filtering system, and that updates are '' the latest in a series of changes we're making to support a more trustworthy music ecosystem for artists, for rights-holders and for listeners.''

As AI becomes more embedded in music creation, the challenge is balancing its legitimate creative use with the ethical and economic pressures it introduces.

Disclosure is essential not just for accountability, but to give listeners transparent and user-friendly choices in the artists they support.

A Patchwork Of Policies : The music industry's response to AI has so far been a mix of ad hoc enforcement as platforms grapple with how to manage emerging uses and expectations of AI in music.

Apple Music took aim at impersonation when it pulled the viral track ' Heart on MySleeve ' featuring AI-cloned vocals of Drake and The Weeknd. The removal was prompted by a copyright complaint,  reflecting concerns over misuse of artists' likeness and voice.

The indie-facing song promotion platform SubmitHub has introduced measures to combat AI-generated spam. Artists must declare if AI played '' a major role '' in a track. The platform also has an '' AI Song Checker '' so playlist curators can scan files to detect AI use.

Spotify's announcement adds another dimension to these efforts. By focusing on disclosure, it recognises that artists use AI in many different ways across music creation and production.

Rather than banning these practices, it opens the door to an AI-labelling system that makes them more transparent.

Labelling Creative Content : Content labelling has long been used to help audiences make informed choices about their media consumption. Movies, TV and music come with parental advisories, for example.

Digital music files also include embedded information tags called metadata, which include details such as genre, tempo and contributing artists that platforms use to categorise songs, calculate royalty payments and to suggest new songs to listeners.

Canada has relied on labelling for decades to strengthen its domestic music industry.

The MAPL system requires radio stations to play a minimum percentage of Canadian music, using a set of criteria to determine whether a song qualifies as Canadian content, based on music, artist, production and lyrics.

As more algorithmically generated AI music appears on streaming platforms, an AI disclosure label would give listeners a way to discover music that matches their preferences, whether they are curious about AI collaboration or are drawn to more traditional or human-crafted approaches.

This Master Publishing on Music and A.I. continues. The World Students Society thanks Gordon A. Gow, Director of Media & Technology Studies at the University of Alberta in Canada - Brian Fauteux, an Associate Professor of Popular Music and Media Studies at the University of Alberta in Canada.

With most loving and respectful dedication to the Global Founder Framers of !WOW! - the exclusive and eternal ownership of every student in the world.

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