Artists and Heirs Speak Out

Coalition of music-rights advocates (Artist Rights Institute and others) filed comments to the White House’s OSTP urging stronger AI regulation around provenance, consent, and an auditable right-to-be-forgotten. They call for platform liability and verification for synthetic recordings, federal recognition of post‑mortem publicity/voice rights, notice‑and‑staydown for deepfakes, recordkeeping of training data, and treating model weights trained on copyrighted works as derivative works—while opposing federal preemption of state NIL/publicity protections. Although not game‑specific, it has clear implications for game audio, voice/likeness use, licensing, and compliance when using AI tools or distributing audio content.

Read More: https://musictechpolicy.com/2025/10/27/artists-and-heirs-speak-out-in-white-house-request-for-comments-on-ai-policy/