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Its first public project is a reworked version of Culture Club&#8217;s 1983 hit &#8216;Karma Chameleon&#8217;, made with the participation of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boygeorge.com\/\">Boy George<\/a> and rights holder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmg.com\/\">BMG<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The company, which counts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.redlightmanagement.com\/\">Red Light Management<\/a> among its early investors, relies on a vocal AI platform from tech firm <strong>Syntiant<\/strong>. Artist Included says its model is built on <a href=\"https:\/\/interspacemusic.com\/blog\/google-moves-to-dismiss-artists-lyria-3-ai-training-lawsuit\/\">consent, transparency, rights clearance, and creator participation<\/a>. The resulting masters can be released on streaming services and open up additional opportunities in sync licensing, foreign-language versions, remixes, and tokenisation.<\/p>\n<p>Boy George underlined the appeal of regaining control. &#8220;It&#8217;s hard to get excited about something that you don&#8217;t control,&#8221; he said, referring to the original &#8216;Karma Chameleon&#8217; master owned by Virgin Records. Co-founder <strong>Paul Kemsley<\/strong> pointed to recent licensing deals for that recording. &#8220;Four million [dollars] changed hands. George didn&#8217;t get anything at all,&#8221; Kemsley said. &#8220;If AI is used correctly, it can return value to the original creators.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Artists re-recording their back catalogues is not a new tactic, but few have managed to make the new versions genuinely compete with the originals for streaming and sync income, Taylor Swift being a notable exception. 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