Opt out of agreements allowing AI to use your music to build more tracks for a production music library

I don’t have music in any of these libraries, so this is not about Envato specifically, it applies to all of them.

I would suggest to opt-out even though I am very well aware that of course it will not stop these type. of companies (or any for that matter) from implementing AI-driven content and catalogs.

But we don’t have to make it too easy for them.

“Composers/musicians using the website @AudioJungle by @envato to sell royalty free music – Envato have ‘updated’ – their T&C’s to **now have AI train on your items that you have authored and uploaded** You are opted in AUTOMATICALLY. Additionally, your items will now be licensed “in perpetuity” becuase an AI cannot ‘forget’ what it has learned. There is no mention of any profit share for authors from AI works derived from authors’ compositions. If you don’t want your items to be trained by AI, you need to remove them from the marketplace by June 1st. There is (currently) no opt-out available. While I appreciate AI is inevitable and some people will be embracing this, the immediacy with which @envato has gone about it while seemingly going against some of their core values is striking. I can’t believe they didn’t give authors a choice, and have only given 20 days notice to find an alternative. For those who might be dependent on income from the site, it puts them in a massive quandary, especially with the lack of time to find an alternate solution. It’s frankly shameful behavior. I’ve had an author account there since 2009 – which I will now remove. It kept me afloat during my early years in the industry. I also reviewed items on the site. This policy change and sudden implementation is disgraceful, and I’m now sorry to have been associated with @audiojungle and @envato in any way.”

Mars in 8K

As much as I appreciate the technical achievement of how we are able to create these images and this footage I have to say:

I love our planet brimming with life everywhere. And I just cannot understand why we destroy it the way we do. We only have this one. There is no other feasible alternative planet for the foreseeable future. Probably even further than that.

 

Matrix 4: The Matrix Resurrections

The trailer is out now and we were added to IMDB so we can finally talk about what we worked on for almost 2 years.

It was a wild ride and one of the best experiences I’ve had professionally: watching Johnny Klimek + Tom Tykwer write and produce the music, several orchestra recording sessions at Abbey Road WAAAAAAHHH, one of those was before Covid-19 so I could actually be there in the studio at the session – double WAAAAAAHHH ), following the editorial and sitting with Lana Wachowski to put music to the pictures.

I’m extremely grateful for this experience.

Watching the trailer with a lot of VFX that I hadn’t seen during the editing process was very exciting. And I can honestly say: you ain’t seen nothin’ yet… 🙂

Mark your calendars, it will hit the theatres on Dec 22nd