{"id":13042,"date":"2026-06-12T12:15:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T10:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mathis-nitschke.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=13042"},"modified":"2026-06-12T12:16:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T10:16:38","slug":"corpus-an-idea-from-early-2021","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/mathis-nitschke.com\/en\/news\/corpus-an-idea-from-early-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"CORPUS, an idea from early 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"md-end-block md-p md-focus\"><span class=\"md-plain md-expand\">The idea behind CORPUS dates back to early 2021. In music AI terms, that is an extremely long time ago. The idea came up when nobody would have understood the proposed solution, because nobody understood the problem yet. That was before the ChatGPT moment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"md-end-block md-p\"><span class=\"md-plain\">I never wanted to build it either. I didn&#8217;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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"md-end-block md-p\"><span class=\"md-plain\">For everyone who doesn&#8217;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<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"md-end-block md-p\"><span class=\"md-plain\">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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"md-end-block md-p\"><span class=\"md-plain\">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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"md-end-block md-p\"><span class=\"md-plain\">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<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"md-end-block md-p\"><span class=\"md-plain\">Photo: Hamburg Kreativ Gesellschaft<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"md-end-block md-p md-focus\"><span class=\"md-plain md-expand\">#CORPUS #MusicAI #TrainingData #MusicIndustry<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The idea behind CORPUS dates back to early 2021. In music AI terms, that is an extremely long time ago. 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