AI-generated music for business, honestly
What AI music is good for, what it is not, what the licensing and disclosure actually require, and what it costs to have someone do it properly.
If you are looking into AI-generated music for a company, here is what is true, including the parts that argue against hiring us.
You can do this yourself
Several services will generate a song from a text prompt for a few dollars a month. If you need background music for a product demo, use one. You do not need a label for that, and we would rather tell you than take the money.
What you are actually paying for
Not the generation. The generation is the cheap part and gets cheaper every quarter.
What costs money is the writing, and the judgement about what the song should be about. Our first commission went through several drafts before one worked, and the difference between the first and the last was not the tooling.
You are also paying for the parts that go wrong quietly: whether the master is the right format, whether the metadata will be rejected, whether the artwork breaks a store rule, whether the disclosure is right.
The disclosure is not optional
Distributors ask directly whether a release contains AI-generated music or vocals, and the answer travels with the record to every platform. Some distributors refuse AI-assisted music entirely. Some require the tool's owner to warrant its training data, which most vendors will not do.
Answering that question wrongly is the kind of mistake that gets a catalogue removed rather than a track rejected.
What you own
This is the part most people get wrong. In current US practice there is no copyright in a purely AI-generated recording, which means the recording is not something you can stop somebody else from copying.
The lyrics are different. Words written by a person are protectable, and they are the part worth owning: if somebody copies your song they necessarily copy the words. Ours are written by people for exactly this reason, and you get the right to use them.
What it costs
From $8,000 for a track cleared for digital and social, from $20,000 once it runs as paid media or broadcast. You can generate something for eight dollars a month instead, and this page has already said when you should. What the price buys is a written, permanent copyright assignment and a named human author for the words, which is the part a subscription does not sell at any tier. The music page has the rest, and how we make records is the full account of the method, minus the parts that are ours.
Start
hello@nity.io. Tell us what the song is for. If the answer is background music for a demo, we will point you at a subscription.