It is also unlikely to be delighted by the second Music Business Worldwide story about AI-generated music, this time in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) market: MENA-focused Spotify rival, Anghami, is now taking the concept to a whole other level – claiming that it will soon become the first platform to host over 200,000 songs generated by AI.Anghami has partnered with a generative music platform called Mubert, which says it allows users to create “unique soundtracks” for various uses such as social media, presentations or films using one million samples from over 4,000 musicians.It’s striking that the undoubtedly interesting but theoretical possibilities of ChatGPT and generative AI art are dominating the headlines, while we hear relatively little about these AI-based music services that are already up and running, and hugely popular with listeners.And with copyright at 70 years after the ‘death’ of the author, these AI generated songs will have infinite copyright, just what the industry has always wanted… And the AI is easily exploitable and useful for clogging up the channels with things ‘sounding like’ those of actual musicians… We can guess who will ‘own’ the AI, thus being able to put the actual human singers/composers/songwriters out of business by suing them for infringement of their AI generated compositions… Sad it if wasn’t the truth of what will probably happen, predicted here first.If we had a sane copyright system, we wouldn’t have people using AI to create works, since creators would not be in terror of “infringing” (whether intentional or not) anyone’s copyright and being sued into oblivion."