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AI Song 'Oye Hoye Kya Scene Hai' Sparks Copyright Questions

AI Song 'Oye Hoye Kya Scene Hai' Sparks Copyright Questions
The song nobody sang: Is AI killing music, or just removing the human? · indianexpress.com

A song called 'Oye Hoye Kya Scene Hai' became very popular on Instagram.

Millions of people watched it, but no human actually sang or wrote it.

A computer program made the song after someone typed a few words into a box.

The computer learned how to write music by studying lots of real songs made by people.

This makes people ask: who owns a song that no person wrote?

In India, the law says a song must be owned by a human, so it is not clear who owns this one.

Making a song used to take years of practice, but now anyone can do it in about a minute.

Some people worry this is unfair to musicians whose songs helped teach the computer.

Others say this is not really new, because popular music has always followed patterns.

The big question is whether we can tell the difference between human music and computer music, and whether it matters.

Key facts

Song
Oye Hoye Kya Scene Hai
Platform
Instagram
Views
Half a billion
Related show
India's Got Latent (first episode)
Host
Samay Raina
Legal context
Indian copyright law requires a human hand for ownership
Creation method
Typing words into a prompt box; made in minutes
Key concept cited
Adorno and Horkheimer's 'culture industry'

Quotes

Nick Seaver

Anthropologist analyzing recommendation algorithms

“"capturing them, i.e. keeping them engaged for as long as possible."”
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