Beatport Bans Fully or Majority AI-Generated Tracks

Online dance music store and streaming platform Beatport has updated its Content Guidelines, announcing that fully or majority AI-generated tracks will not be permitted on the platform. They will be withheld during ingestion, with rightsholders notified directly.

AI exception:

• Music that is primarily human made but created with AI assistance will still be accepted.

• The releases will be tagged during ingestion, so Beatport’s curation team has a clear picture of what it’s reviewing and featuring.

Detection tool:

• To facilitate the updated Content Guidelines, Beatport has expanded its partnership with music fraud detection specialist Beatdapp, which can distinguish between fully generated and AI-assisted tracks.

• The companies initially partnered to combat streaming fraud.

Community approval:

• A recent survey of Beatport’s users revealed 60% of DJs said they would not play AI-generated tracks in their sets.

• Only 8% were open to playing those tracks; 13% would consider it if artists and labels were fairly compensated.

What they said:

• Matt Gralen, Beatport CEO: “Beatport exists to serve DJs and empower artists & labels. This means partnering with our community and providing confidence in what our platform offers. While new production techniques have driven electronic music forward since the beginning, there is a difference between a tool that assists human creation and a system that replaces it entirely. Beatport is built on the former.”