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The problem isn't in famous works, the problem is the 99.99% that aren't commercially viable before or after the death of the author. If my family finds my unreleased songs, and they can find a market, then have at it for 5 years, then set them lose.

My suggestion is to battle A.I. You have it backwards. A.I. will DESTROY commercial viability to pretty much all human creation in the commercial space. My concern is with the ARTISTIC space. The level of advancement of these machines is dramatically more than even those at the cutting edge realized. The problem is that you will be able to come home and interact with your personal A.I. (which will be nearly free and 1 million times more powerful than it is now). It will know ALL your preferences. I would rather have it searching HUMAN databases of Art than simply the unlimited A.I. created art. But 99% of all human art is being lost! Especially writing and music. I have 2300 songs. You likely have more. The mass number of songs will be buried by 100 million A.I. creations to any 1 human creation. Meanwhile, most human creations will be hybrid where A.I. plays a significant role. When A.I. an do ALL the processing that current "gear" does, why buy the gear? Most people can never afford a Pro Producer or Engineer or Session Player to help them. Rich people can and corporations can, just like right now. But A.I. will allow poor people to make anything a whole team can currently. It is just reality. But most music will be made for an audience of 1. It will be perfectly curated for 1 person. Sure, there will be curators who make mass market products, but it will likely be very different than anything we can comprehend. People will be able to enter a virtual reality where they are "in" what we think of as a film. They can be passive or active. (i.e. a viewer or participant or both). We already have bits and pieces of these experiences, but it will soon be like magic to our 20th and 21st century brains.

My fear is all this stuff will simply be lost because 50 years after you and I am gone, no one will remember the legalities of our creations. Music will have changed so much that this brief era of time will slip under the water and be lost. I want humanities creations to be archived and drawn upon. Right now A.I. needs DATA. Our art is essentially hard copy data. But once it becomes orphaned, no one will ever be able to touch it. We see it already rampant because no survivors have records of who exactly owns what. Publishers shut down without anyone knowing the status of their assets. Freeing this content while someone (anyone) still has a copy or record of it is critical.