The American reggae act’s “Angels Above Me” song is being repeatedly cloned, but others are claiming the performance credit and the revenue.
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Artist fears about the theft of their copyrighted work through AI have rapidly become reality in the recording industry. The French streaming platform, Deezer, recently claimed that AI-generated content accounts for about 44 percent of its daily uploads – about 75,000 songs.
Now, the 2019 track by American reggae act Stick Figure, “Angels Above Me,” from the World On Fire album, has been pirated in several unauthorized AI-generated remixes. The fraudulent versions are topping Apple Music charts in multiple countries across Europe including Germany, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Switzerland, and Ireland. They have also become major streaming hits in Britain, America, and Canada, but the original artist and songwriters are uncredited and unpaid.
