ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,514, issued on May 19, was assigned to Music IP Holdings Inc. (Nashville, Tenn.).
"Ai-generated music derivative works" was invented by Christopher Horton (Santa Monica, Calif.), Jeremy Uzan (Santa Monica, Calif.), Sion Elliott (Santa Monica, Calif.) and Daniel A. Drolet (Charleston, S.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for creating AI-generated derivative works from predetermined content with copyright compliance and content owner control. In some aspects, the system receives predetermined content and a user-requested transformation theme, then employs generative artificial intelligence to create a derivative work....