Tidal Just Drew a Line in the Sand on AI Music — 100% AI-Generated Tracks Won’t Earn Royalties on the Music Streaming Platform
The policy will tag 100% AI tracks with an AI badge and bar them from royalties, direct-to-fan sales and other monetization.
- Starting July 15, TIDAL will block fully AI-generated tracks from earning royalties, direct-to-fan sales, or any monetization, while applying a visible 'AI' badge to content identified as entirely machine-made.
- Robert Andersen, principal designer at TIDAL developer Block, wrote on X that the platform receives an 'overwhelming amount of AI-generated music from 3rd party distributors,' claiming the policy protects human artists' authenticity and livelihoods.
- Automated tools will identify and remove content impersonating artists, which TIDAL EVP and Editor-in-Chief Tony Gervino categorizes as 'fraudulent activity,' preventing listeners from encountering wholly machine-generated music masquerading as human work.
- This move aligns TIDAL with Deezer, which takes the industry's most aggressive anti-AI stance; Spotify and Apple Music label AI content but allow monetization, making TIDAL's demonetization approach distinctly stricter.
- TIDAL called the policy a 'living document' that will evolve as AI-detection capabilities improve; if demonetization proves effective at reducing AI-track volume, larger streaming platforms may follow the company's lead.
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The Tidal music streaming platform will begin to identify music created with artificial intelligence (AI) and will stop paying royalties for reproductions of tracks totally generated by the technology. The new policy comes into effect on July 15 and also applies to the Tidal Upload, the company's platform for independent artists. According to the streaming service, songs produced entirely or substantially with AI should be identified. At first, …
Tidal won’t pay royalties on AI-generated music but isn’t banning it outright
Tidal shared its new policies regarding AI-generated music today and how the platform plans to "protect artists" and "inform listeners." Instead of banning it outright, starting on July 15th Tidal will label tracks it has identified as being 100 percent AI-generated with an icon. But starting today those tracks will no longer be monetizable. "Tidal's priority is ensuring royalties go to original works directly produced, written, and performed by…
Tidal Says It Won’t Pay Royalties for AI-Generated Music
Music streaming service Tidal announced it won’t pay royalties for AI-generated music in an email to users and an announcement on its website published Monday. “Tidal’s priority is ensuring royalties go to original works directly produced, written, and performed by people,” the announcement reads. “We will therefore not knowingly attribute royalties to music we identify as wholly AI-generated.”Like much of the internet, music streaming services …
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