I never wanted to build it either. I didn’t want to found a tech company, and certainly not become something like a GEMA 2.0. Well, and where do I find myself now? Right in the middle of it.
For everyone who doesn’t know the project: CORPUS is building a fair, diverse, licensable training corpus for music AI, with certified shares for everyone who helps build it. More: corpus.music
Last year was a wild year in music AI. Again and again I thought we would have to reinvent ourselves. But the underlying hypothesis holds, unchanged. That is the astonishing part. What we are working on is just as necessary as before.
And I see it in the discussions: at the WIPO forum, in conversations with GEMA, with copyright lawyers, with the catalogue owners we are now closing our first strategic partnerships with, and with the industry partners who want to implement our future models. They want to connect with the music community. They want authenticity, and they get it through the story embedded in this corpus. What keeps coming back is that what we are doing is substantially valuable.
That makes me happy. Whether it will also be wanted will become clear over the coming months and years. The proposal, in any case, is out in the world: we are in public beta. Join in and spread the word: app.corpus.music
Photo: Hamburg Kreativ Gesellschaft
