Studio Governance
Plain answers about how this studio makes music, what it checks, and what you can verify yourself.
Governance is the product
AI music is having its day in court. Our answer isn't a press release — it's the way the studio is built. Every song made here passes through four stages of checks and record-keeping, and every one of them is running in production today. This page describes what actually happens, not what we aspire to.
Stage 1 — Before anything goes in
- Your uploads carry a copyright declaration. When you import lyrics, MIDI, or notation, you declare what it is — your original work, public domain, or licensed — and that declaration is cryptographically bound to the exact content you uploaded. It can't be swapped or reused on different material.
- Named artists are blocked at the door. Requests to imitate real artists never reach the audio engine. A curated blocklist of nearly one thousand artist names, plus an AI classifier for paraphrased attempts, runs on every request — and the same filter runs a second, independent time at the engine boundary.
- Imported melodies and lyrics are screened against known works before a note is generated.
Stage 2 — While your song is made
- The full recipe is recorded. Every render stores the settings, the random seed, the engine version, and a fingerprint of the exact model weights that produced it. If a question is ever raised about a generation, we can say precisely how that file was made — not guess.
- Your creative decisions are witnessed. Every meaningful choice you make — themes, edits, regenerations, imports — is logged to a tamper-evident, hash-chained record with independent timestamps.
Stage 3 — Before it reaches you
- Output lyrics are screened against known songs on the way out, not just on the way in.
- Melodic similarity checks run on imported material, with the same standard applied to what leaves the studio as to what enters it.
Stage 4 — When it's delivered
- Signed content credentials (C2PA). Every song ships with an industry-standard, cryptographically signed manifest saying it's AI-assisted music made in this studio — readable by anyone, forgeable by no one.
- An inaudible watermark travels inside the audio itself, so the file's origin survives copying and re-encoding.
- An authorship score. Each song carries a documented measure of your creative contribution — your selections, arrangements, and modifications — computed from the witnessed record, with the formula version pinned so the number means the same thing years from now.
- Your rights are plain. You get full commercial rights to your songs — keep them, sell them, release them. The credentials and records exist to document your authorship, not to encumber it.
What we make — and what we won't
| Request | Our answer |
|---|---|
| An original song from your idea | Yes — that's the studio. |
| A song in the spirit of a genre | Yes — genre is style, not property. |
| Importing your own lyrics, chords, or melodies | Yes, with a declaration, and checked on the way in. |
| A new studio-quality take of your own song made here | Yes — that's the Studio Master. |
| A cover of someone else's song | No — not offered. |
| "Make it sound like [artist]" | Blocked before it reaches the engine. |
| Cloning a real person's voice | Blocked. Not offered in any form. |
The honest answer on training data
Our studio runs on an open-source audio engine we host privately on our own hardware. We didn't train it, so we won't characterize its training data secondhand. What we can stand behind is how we use it: every song starts as an original composition written in your session; requests to imitate real artists are blocked before they ever reach the engine; lyrics and melodies are screened against known works on the way in and on the way out; and every file ships with signed C2PA content credentials documenting how it was made. That's our answer on provenance — verifiable controls on what we make, not secondhand claims about what a model saw in training.
Verify it yourself
Every song's content credentials can be inspected with any C2PA-compatible tool, and your song's authorship record is available from your own account. We also meet the EU AI Act's transparency requirements for AI-generated content, and your data rights — access and deletion — are self-serve. Details, including exactly what counts as your work, are on our How It Works page.
This page describes the studio's controls as they operate today. It is not legal advice, and it will be updated as the controls evolve.