Who Owns Your Voice? AI, Music & the New Rights Stack
AI is turning an artist's voice into an asset that can exist independently of anything they recorded or wrote.
A voice can now be cloned outside of the songs, the masters, and the compositions it was trained on, the exact material that recording and publishing rights were built to protect. Most of the conversation around this has focused on fear, lawsuits, and who's getting sued. This session is about something different: who actually controls a cloned voice today, and who gets paid for it.
We'll cover what artists and their teams need to understand before a voice can be licensed, cloned, or used, where existing music rights frameworks do and don't cover a synthetic voice, what real consent looks like in a voice deal, and why artists shouldn't have to find out where they stand after it's already happened.
Whether you're an artist, a manager, an attorney, or work at a label, publisher, or rights org, this session will help you understand both the opportunity and the exposure that comes with AI and voice.
We'll cover:
How a voice clone can exist entirely outside the recordings and compositions it was trained on
Where masters, publishing, and PRO royalty structures do and don't cover a synthetic voice
What real consent needs to include: scope, duration, compensation, revocation
Who currently controls a cloned voice, and who gets paid when it's used
Real scenarios: what happens when a voice is cloned or licensed without the artist's knowledge
Practical steps artists and their teams can take today
🎤 Moderator & Speakers
Moderator
Loredana Cacciotti - Founder of Future Play Music and former EVP of Digital Revenue & Licensing at Downtown Music. A music lawyer with 15+ years of experience negotiating licensing deals with 130+ DSPs.
Speakers
Adam Weissman - Founder of Weissman Law. A media and entertainment lawyer who represents creators, performers, and agencies, and sees how voice and likeness rights show up inside everyday contracts.
Dae Bogan - Head of Third-Party Partnerships at The Mechanical Licensing Collective and former lecturer at UCLA. Writes and speaks on AI music licensing, consent, and how artists get paid.
Devin Kennedy - Head of Third-Party Partnerships at The Mechanical Licensing Collective and former lecturer at UCLA. Writes and speaks on AI music licensing, consent, and how artists get paid.
💡 Who Should Attend
Artists and musicians
Artist managers and talent agents
Music and entertainment attorneys
Label and publishing executives
PROs and rights organizations
Music tech and AI music platform operators
💬 Why Attend
Understand where a voice clone falls outside traditional recording and composition rights
Learn what's actually enforceable today versus what's still a legal gray area
Get language for what to ask for, or refuse, in an AI voice-licensing deal
Understand who currently controls a cloned voice and who gets paid
Leave with practical steps to protect and monetize your voice