Generative AI platforms create music by combining melodies, vocals, rhythms, stems, and other musical components that originate from real artists and rights holders. Yet today's infrastructure cannot reliably determine what was used, where it came from, who controls it, or how rights and revenue should be allocated. The generation event happens. The provenance is lost.
The challenge extends far beyond AI-generated music. Unauthorized sampling, voice cloning, fraud, and hybrid works where AI and human creativity coexist all face the same limitation. The industry lacks the infrastructure to establish content provenance, identify rights at the component level, and support licensing, remuneration, and enforcement.
