AI AND DATA RIGHTS CLAUSE REVIEW
The AI clause in your contract was written by a legal team, for their benefit. This review is yours.
What’s Sitting in Your Agreements.
Somewhere in the agreement you signed with your distributor, or your publishing admin deal, or your label services contract, there is almost certainly a clause about artificial intelligence. You may not have noticed it. Most artists don’t. They’re buried in the definitions sections, tucked into data licensing permissions, or folded into broader rights assignments that look routine on the surface.
What Those Clauses Actually Say.
What those clauses actually say varies enormously. Some are relatively limited. Others assign rights to use your recordings and compositions to train AI models, in perpetuity, across territories, for purposes that weren’t fully defined when you signed. The companies offering these deals are not doing anything illegal. But the long-term implications for artists who haven’t read the small print carefully are significant, and they’re only going to become more so.
An area still catching up
This is a relatively new area, and the contracts are moving faster than most artists’ awareness of them. That’s the gap the AI and Data Rights Clause Review is designed to fill.
AI Training Rights. Data Licensing. Algorithmic Use.
I go through your agreement and identify every clause that touches on AI training rights, data licensing, algorithmic use of your recordings or compositions, and any broader rights assignments that could apply to how your music is processed or used by technology systems. You will get a plain language written report that tells you exactly what you’ve agreed to, what it means in practice, and what options you have going forward.
Inside Knowledge of How These Rights Actually Work.
My background working in broadcast technology at Channel 4, Channel 5, and the BBC gives me a working understanding of how data rights function inside large media organisations. Not just in theory. This isn’t an area where I’m reading the same publicly available guidance you could find yourself. The mechanics of how these rights get used once they’re assigned is something I understand from the inside.
As with all the consultancy work I do, this is as an independent industry advisor and is not to be considered legal advice. If what I find raises concerns that need a solicitor or legal review, I’ll say so clearly and point you in the right direction.
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Turnaround is typically one to two weeks. The review starts from £250.
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