{"id":6810,"date":"2026-06-29T20:50:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T20:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interspacemusic.com\/blog\/berklee-ai-music-summit-draws-protest-debates-generative-ais-future\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T20:50:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T20:50:26","slug":"berklee-ai-music-summit-draws-protest-debates-generative-ais-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/interspacemusic.com\/blog\/berklee-ai-music-summit-draws-protest-debates-generative-ais-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Berklee AI Music Summit Draws Protest, Debates Generative AI&#8217;s Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Organized by the <strong>Berklee Emerging Artistic Technology Lab (BEATL)<\/strong>, the inaugural <strong>AI Music Summit (AIMS)<\/strong> at <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.berklee.edu\">Berklee College of Music<\/a><\/strong> ran June 3-5 in Boston, drawing hundreds of engineers, educators, executives, lawyers, researchers, producers, and musicians. Outside the venue, a rotating group of students protested peacefully, highlighting the tension between technological advancement and <a href=\"https:\/\/interspacemusic.com\/blog\/the-sovereignty-surge-how-artists-are-reclaiming-language-revenue-and-rights-in-2026\/\">creator rights<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Student Protest Outside the Venue<\/h2>\n<p>Throughout the three-day event, students stationed themselves outside the Richard Ortner Studio Building, playing music, distributing brochures, and engaging attendees in conversation. The peaceful demonstration was part of a broader backlash against the college&#8217;s approach to AI.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are a lot of people here who are at the top level of the AI music industry, and they&#8217;re deciding it for the rest of us,&#8221; said <strong>Theo Wheeler<\/strong>, a Berklee student majoring in contemporary writing and production.<\/p>\n<h2>AI as an Umbrella Term<\/h2>\n<p>Music lawyer <strong>Elizabeth Moody<\/strong> opened her presentation, &#8220;The Future of Music &amp; AI: Deals, Data, and Creator Value,&#8221; by asking whether the industry has a branding problem. She noted that discussions often conflate music production tools, generative songwriting software, and voice cloning technology.<\/p>\n<p>Summit sessions highlighted that AI encompasses assistive, generative, and agentic applications across production, songwriting, remixing, recommendation systems, marketing, and royalty calculations. A panel featuring the CEOs of <strong>Audioshake<\/strong>, <strong>AutoTune<\/strong>, <strong>Image-Line<\/strong>, <strong>LANDR<\/strong>, and <strong>Universal Audio<\/strong> stressed that AI should solve specific problems rather than be deployed for its own sake.<\/p>\n<p>Even within <a href=\"https:\/\/interspacemusic.com\/blog\/study-finds-significant-artist-adoption-of-ai-tools\/\">generative AI<\/a>, approaches differ sharply. Companies like <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/suno.com\">Suno<\/a><\/strong> train models on unlicensed music, while <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/elevenlabs.io\">ElevenLabs<\/a><\/strong> says it uses only recordings with permission. Suno&#8217;s &#8220;open studio&#8221; model allows users to download and distribute AI-generated tracks, whereas upcoming platforms such as <strong>Udio<\/strong>&#8216;s Starstruck app and <strong>Spotify<\/strong>&#8216;s AI remix tool propose a &#8220;walled garden&#8221; where user-generated content cannot be exported.<\/p>\n<h2>Generative AI: Continuity or Rupture?<\/h2>\n<p>Speakers frequently compared generative AI to past disruptions: the player piano, phonograph, MIDI, sampling, peer-to-peer file sharing, and streaming. Each sparked industry revolt, legal battles, and fears over livelihoods before becoming normalized.<\/p>\n<p>However, presenters cautioned that framing generative AI as just another technological shift risks overlooking its unprecedented scale. A recent study by <strong>Deezer<\/strong> found that nearly 75,000 fully AI-generated tracks are uploaded to the platform daily, accounting for 1-3% of overall streams, many of which are detected as fraudulent. Other streaming services, including Spotify, are similarly contending with a flood of AI-generated content.<\/p>\n<h2>The Need for Precision<\/h2>\n<p>Several speakers argued that collapsing all AI tools into a single category weakens both criticism and advocacy. Lumping a noise-removal plugin for a digital audio workstation (DAW) with fully AI-generated music dilutes arguments and distracts from underlying issues, they said.<\/p>\n<h2>Legal and Policy Gaps<\/h2>\n<p>Technology often moves faster than the legal, policy, and business infrastructure, as evident from lengthy lawsuits and ongoing concerns about Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) protections. 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