Responsibly produced AI tools have significant potential for the music sector. The rights of all those involved in creating and distributing music must be respected and licensed specifically in advance.
Without prejudice to any prior rights reservations, Chrysalis Records Limited (“Chrysalis”) and Blue Raincoat Music Limited (“BRM”) hereby expressly reaffirms that its rights are fully reserved as set out below. We reaffirm that:
Any past, present or future use of any of the works or content owned or controlled by Chrysalis and / or BRM (including recordings, audiovisual recordings, compositions, lyrics, artwork, images, data, metadata, etc.) for the purpose of reproducing, performing, distributing, linking to or ingesting, machine learning or any AI training, development or commercialisation of AI systems, tools or technology, web scraping, ripping, recording, altering, making extracts or derivatives, crawling, text or data mining or similar purposes, and by any means (including by automated means), is prohibited, except as specifically and explicitly authorised in writing by Chrysalis and / or BRM in advance.
In the absence of an express written advance licence permitting the above uses, we expressly reserve our rights in respect of the use of Chrysalis and / or BRM’s content, including without limitation under Article 4 of the EU Directive 2019/70/EC or similar laws in other jurisdictions (to the extent that this Article would apply to the above uses, an interpretation we do not agree with). Our reservation applies to all content owned or controlled by Chrysalis and / or BRM now or in the future, including where this content may be identified through publicly available means.
We will take the necessary steps to prevent the infringement of our rights.
