"It’s time for Smith to face the music,' said U.S. Attorney Damian Williams for the Southern District of New York, as he laid out the indictment against a musician who obtained $10 million in royalty payments via AI-generated songs and streaming bots.
September 06, 2024 at 04:07 PM
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Legal Tech Reporter
In a first-of-its-kind indictment, New York officials arrested a man on Wednesday for generating music using AI technology and then distributing it billions of times across streaming services to collect royalties.
Michael Smith, 52, a musician out of Cornelius, North Carolina was charged in a three-count indictment in the Southern District of New York, including wire fraud conspiracy, wire fraud and money laundering conspiracy—each carrying a 20-year maximum prison sentence.
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