Start-up producing ‘deepfakes’ of tracks by Amy Winehouse and Drake faces legal action

The website allows users to upload their own singing and then convert the recording into an audio track that sounds similar to songs by a range of musicians.

BPI is concerned the technology that converts the users’ voices breaches copyright laws as it may have been created by using artists’ original work. Jammable users pay monthly fees of between £1.99 and £89.99.

Gee Davy, head of policy and legal affairs at the Association of Independent Music, told the Times: “The use of music without consent undermines artists’ ability to make a living from their music and has no place in the creative collaboration between music and AI, and it seems this has been the case with Jammable. As always, it is the smaller artists and creatives and those from diverse communities that suffer the most from unethical and illegal activities.”