Commercial use of generated audio outputs
Are outputs generated locally with YuE2-3B allowed for commercial use, such as releasing songs on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, etc. and receiving streaming revenue, provided that the YuE2 model weights themselves are not redistributed, sold, or offered as part of a commercial generation service?
In other words, does the CC BY-NC 4.0 restriction apply only to commercial use/distribution of the model weights themselves, or does it also restrict commercial use of audio outputs generated by the model?
i thought ai slop couldnt be copyrighted in usa atleast
Copyright and For Commercial Use are two different concepts entirely. Most of those streaming services themselves have restrictions and or require explicitly detailed descriptions that they are AI created. Good question to clarify if it's the weights or audio outputs also or both.
I'd love to know too. It's very vague on their site.
But If you check Yue2's licence file on here [MODEL_LICENSE] (https://github.com/multimodal-art-projection/YuE/blob/main/MODEL_LICENSE#:~:text=MODEL_LICENSE)
it says
" a. License grant.
1. Subject to the terms and conditions of this Public License,
the Licensor hereby grants You a worldwide, royalty-free,
non-sublicensable, non-exclusive, irrevocable license to
exercise the Licensed Rights in the Licensed Material to:
a. reproduce and Share the Licensed Material, in whole or
in part, for NonCommercial purposes only; and
b. produce, reproduce, and Share Adapted Material for
NonCommercial purposes only. "
I sent them an email asking them to confirm about the commercial rights for example if shared/monetised on Youtube.
If you are individual content creators, musicians, researchers, you can use the model and outputs whatever you want. Even making money from the outputs.
Only companies should pay for the commercial license.
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If you are individual content creators, musicians, researchers, you can use the model and outputs whatever you want. Even making money from the outputs.
Only companies should pay for the commercial license.
Does it say that anywhere by them officially? For this new model?
If you are individual content creators, musicians, researchers, you can use the model and outputs whatever you want. Even making money from the outputs.
Only companies should pay for the commercial license.
If you want to support us, there's a buy me a coffee link here: https://buymeacoffee.com/ruibin
Thank you! But commercial license to what? Only the model (e.g. selling YuE2 inference), or do companies have to pay for/license outputs as well? Say I make a game, use YuE music in it and start a company to publish it - can I legally sell the game?
This repo has it as CC-BY-NC-4.0, but their other repo has it as Apache 2.0 (https://github.com/multimodal-art-projection/YuE?tab=Apache-2.0-1-ov-file), which is free to use for commercial purposes.
a43992899, some clarification about the exact license of the outputs from the model would be hugely appreciated.
In any case, thank you for sharing this model with us.
If you are individual content creators, musicians, researchers, you can use the model and outputs whatever you want. Even making money from the outputs.
Only companies should pay for the commercial license.
If you want to support us, there's a buy me a coffee link here: https://buymeacoffee.com/ruibin
Re: using the outputs in a commercial way (whether ads or selling the outputs), is it OK if I am an individual (just me, no employees) but still have a business entity for basic liability/tax reasons?
If you are individual content creators, musicians, researchers, you can use the model and outputs whatever you want. Even making money from the outputs.
Only companies should pay for the commercial license.
If you want to support us, there's a buy me a coffee link here: https://buymeacoffee.com/ruibin
Hi, I’m developing a "paid" application that would bundle YuE2’s model files and weights, with all generation running locally on each user’s computer.
We would distribute the model with the software, without hosting inference or charging per generation.
Would this require a commercial license for us, even when our users are individual creators?